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silverpill

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Ripple/XRP (a cryptocurrency company) just granted 200k USD to Social Web Foundation, "...to research sustainable revenue and operating models for digital publishers and community-run platforms":

https://interledger.org/news/interledger-foundation-awards-200000-social-web-foundation-support-decentralized-social-media

This means they will be able to influence the development of the ActivityPub specification at W3C.

For those who don't know: Interledger, WebMonetization and OpenPayments are basically the same thing, these projects were created by Ripple ~10 years ago in order to insert their cryptocurrency and related payment services into web standards. These projects are sometimes presented as independent, but this is a lie, they are not (not in 2019, not in 2025).

Needless to say, Ripple itself is a borderline scam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/. It's not even a cryptocurrency really, their infrastructure is completely centralized and no one in cryptocurrency space takes them seriously. But they have a lot of money to bribe people, so I am sure that we will hear more about their adventures soon.

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/?p=99982

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Phantasm

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@silverpill @kirby Now that this popped up in my timeline again, I completely forgot who social web foundation was. And now I remembered that fediblock mastodon had a meltdown about them couple months ago, after Meta became a sponsor and Mastodon got involved.

Funny thing, Flipboard, a public fediverse scraper, and IFTAS, an autojanny blocklist aggregator, are also involved.

This might be the time, when the network splits completely in half, if they manage to convince Mastodon to do another subject-esque hijack, but on a larger scale.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/03/27/defederation-on-the-fediverse/
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/
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Lemmy started out by building their own protocol, which was totally justified for their reddit-like rating and all the potential feature sets - then they switched to AP. The best way to make it impossible for VC to capture a project is by staying small and fractured, like Zot and ZAP.

The Fedi relying so much on AP is a death-knell.
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Jupiter Rowland

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@silverpill @Kirby I guess not exactly few Mastodon users would love for this to happen and for Mastodon to switch to a protocol that's so firmly tied to Mastodon itself that it's next to impossible for other server software to adopt it and (re-)federate with Mastodon.

Finally, "the Fediverse" would be what all Mastodon newbies thought it is when they joined: only Mastodon and nothing but Mastodon. No more "culture-less intruders" from Pleroma or Misskey or Friendica or Mitra or whatever who refuse to adopt Mastodon's culture and limit their posts to 500 characters etc. and try to justify it with "their software working/being designed differently" and "their software having its own culture".

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #MastodonCulture
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