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minus-squarestinerman@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·4 days agoNot trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoThe specification yes. But can they silence voices they don’t like, and amplify those they do? No? Then no problem.
minus-squareDr_Del_Fuego@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThey don’t have to if the transmission lines are owned by frontier/Verizon/comcast
minus-squareGrail@multiverse.soulism.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI’m not sure I believe that any more than I believe any of those ridiculous techbros owned those ugly apes
minus-squarestinerman@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoAP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.
minus-squareGrail@multiverse.soulism.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI don’t believe many people implementing AP listen to W3C. W3C can say they own it, but I want to see practical evidence, not just a flag.
minus-squarestinerman@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoBy that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it’s not worth belaboring.
Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.
The specification yes. But can they silence voices they don’t like, and amplify those they do? No? Then no problem.
They don’t have to if the transmission lines are owned by frontier/Verizon/comcast
I’m not sure I believe that any more than I believe any of those ridiculous techbros owned those ugly apes
AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.
I don’t believe many people implementing AP listen to W3C. W3C can say they own it, but I want to see practical evidence, not just a flag.
By that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it’s not worth belaboring.