The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.
We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.
@mike Question: If corporations implement Activity Pub, does that mean they are providing “Algorithms" to filter the home feed according to user signals (and their advertisers “legitimate" interests)?
@kajkandler ActivityPub implementations are independent from whether algorithms are used or not. And anyone can implement ActivityPub however they choose.
@mike Thanks for the reply. You seem to know a lot about the protocol. May I ask who is responsible for the home feed? Is it the server I host my account with or the client app that I use?
I ask, because I would not mind to have a machine learning algorithm filter some sources in my feed for the topics I'm interested in and engage with. While other sources I'd like to have raw, 100%.