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Loomio isn't federated (yet). I spent some time arguing for this a few years ago, but it wasn't a priority for the co-op who develop the software. But it's AGPL, so if someone else thought about the UX and wrote a good patch, they might be willing to merge it. Especially now that Mastodon is getting mainstream attention.
I've tried avoiding talking about #Tumblr directly (though there was far less reason to do so, before recently).
Making any project a foil to another existing work will always define it in terms of that other work and, I think, comes off as a waste of everyone else's time.
But I've been seeing a lot of excitement around Tumblr adding #ActivityPub and it has me…Concerned™.
Not due to the size of an instance this would add to the network (though it's a fair concern) nor due to possibly making
corporation (though that /is/ relevant) but we've started developing federated software that we, collectively, can own with no binding need for corporate reliance and…we're already discussing trading that away?
Like, – unless #Tumblr open-sources, /first/ (and I mean #AGPL or equivalent; not even just #GPL), and I'm able to run it on my own server – going to #Tumblr or recommending people to them is just losing the ownership you would otherwise have with a #PeerTube, #GoToSocial, or #BookWyrm.
On The Risks of Permissive Licensing (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
Also, the AGPL isn’t something that commercial operations are afraid of. There are plenty of examples of industry using AGPL software....