Email is a technology, yes. ActivityPub is also a technology. Correct, nobody “owns” either. That’s where the similarity ends though. If SatanCorp comes along and sets up their own instance, they get everything everyone posts. Every message they send. Instances can defederate, yes, which requires SatanCorp to spend another 10 dollars on a host name. I don’t think people understand how trust based and fragile ActivityPub and Lemmy are, or how little privacy there is in any of what you do here, from good actors or bad.
Which billionaire owns email?
Email? I don’t even know how many addresses are owned by Google.
I’m just saying, The internet may still have a small piece of “nomansland” left, but it’s shrinking by the second.
Microsoft owns Outlook. A lot of people use their iCloud email address. ISP emails.
People here have been moving to Infomaniak, Posteo, mailbox.org, Proton, Tuta
Email is still open and free to use. That’s what I mean when I say Lemmy cannot be bought.
Many people in my country are using GMX
Email by design does not send everyone’s email to everyone else’s server. It’s not a good comparison.
Remember Usenet? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
You’re missing their point.
No, I’m not. It’s a terrible “point”.
Email is a technology, yes. ActivityPub is also a technology. Correct, nobody “owns” either. That’s where the similarity ends though. If SatanCorp comes along and sets up their own instance, they get everything everyone posts. Every message they send. Instances can defederate, yes, which requires SatanCorp to spend another 10 dollars on a host name. I don’t think people understand how trust based and fragile ActivityPub and Lemmy are, or how little privacy there is in any of what you do here, from good actors or bad.
https://gui.fediseer.com/ already allows instances to establish trust with each other.
If a scenario like yours happens, admins would probably switch to an allow list model where new instances need to demonstrate trust
They can already scrap all the content.
What you’re suggesting is defederation by default. On the “fediverse”.
You just can’t gey the point, huh?
Sure. Why don’t you enlighten me?
I’ll give you a hint. Try reading the original thread but put aside your own agenda.
For now…