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in reply to David Revoy

Am I misunderstanding the scale of the potential problem?

Like, Facebook can set up their own instance, and then.....? I know that they want money and data (to sell for money), but does making their own instance give them access to data on other instances that isn't already public? Is the concern that a huge Facebook instance sucks up all the oxygen and new users who'd otherwise go elsewhere?

I feel like the naive noob in the room.
in reply to Alyssa Voronin

@TranshumanBlues
Think about what Google did to email. SMTP is an open protocol like ActivityPub.
Now think about what Google did to XMPP, also an open protocol.
I bet your answer is "I don't know anything about SMTP or XMPP" and that's the problem, big companies "adopt the protocol" then after getting all the users onboard, they deprecate the open protocol using private APIs instead.
in reply to Andres Jalinton

And I still have my own email. Two domains.
You can stick handle around the bastards.

@TranshumanBlues @davidrevoy
in reply to Kermode

@gemlog @Andres @TranshumanBlues
This thread https://mstdn.social/@BeerFox/110597321714642307 discusses some of the problems people have been having with gmail rejecting email due to inconsistent treatment of security features. I run my own email server too and had to scramble to update one of these just a few months ago to avoid getting into a permanent ban list. Just a few weeks ago, Google CalDAV changed login requirements.

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in reply to Paolo Redaelli

@paoloredaelli @gemlog @Andres @TranshumanBlues moving to self hosted CalDAV has always been part of my plan. #DavX5 has only been a stop-gap till I get some other solution in place.

I am also considering DecSync CC https://f-droid.org/packages/org.decsync.cc/so I can do things asynchronously with a lighter weight CalDAV server that is not exposed to the internet, but am not sure that's the way to go yet.
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