I feel like the Bluesky bridge is waking people up to some of the realities of ActivityPub.
I will always think the open web is better than the corporate one we just left. But there should be a better way to inform people on how their data is used, stored and transmitted.
Because once you federate, you have no control over what another server does with your data. No server has to agree to the TOS of any other server. The only option you have is to block the server.
I have mostly thought that small or one person servers (like hosted email) is the future to give the user the most options. But now I can also see a rise of small closed servers that have a white list for federation rather than the block list as a way of better controlling user data.
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