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If it was almost any other corporation I'd be willing to give them a chance. If Tumblr actually launches ActivityPub I doubt many people will complain. The fact that it's Facebook though makes it pretty much a non-starter imo.
It's just a non starter cause you declare it a non starter?
For me personally with my instance, yes
It's Meta. Why even attempt to let them? What event in their history makes anyone go, "oh, yeah, that would be good."
The only difference between Tumblr and Facebook is size. Facebook isn't uniquely evil; it does exactly what any corporation would do at that scale. The systems that molded Facebook into what it is would also mold Tumblr or anything else into the same abomination.
I would respect principled opposition to megacorps even if I think it's still misguided in this instance, because at least that's overall based. But all of the discourse focuses on the specific wrongdoings of Facebook as if any other corporation wouldn't have done exactly the same thing in their position. It feels very kneejerk.
I want to federate and use it to destroy their platform. The biggest problem with the periodic social media "migrations" that always fail is that it creates a fragmented diaspora. Take Twitter as an example. When the big migration off Twitter was supposed to happen, some went to the Fediverse, some went to Threads, some went to BlueSky.
You know what happened? After a few weeks, most of them went back to Twitter, because that was the only common place between them, where they knew they could all meet and communicate. If Twitter was forced to federate with all other platforms, it would have been snuffed out by now. But if that was even proposed, everybody would have a kneejerk reaction, because Twitter bad. Nobody is thinking of the big picture.