The ideas aren’t bad, but they need to be broken down into atoms to build a solid foundation for such a rule base.

• What is the motivation behind limiting member counts? Right now this would indiscriminately punish anyone with an existing userbase looking to open up to ActivityPub. Are there alternative rules that would tackle your motivation better?
• What constitutes an ad? Community is horribly split on this. There’s the obvious banner ad, but there’s also instance sponsors or users simply proclaiming how overly happy they’ve been with a certain product. People are calling each other sheeps and bought shills left and right. Go to a tech community, advocate for a browser that isn’t a derivative of Firefox and you’ll see what I mean.
• As for altering the protocol, again: What are your motivations for this, and could another rule tackle them better?

Before we establish any rules, it might be best to establish a communally agreed set of motivations and goals for the fediverse first.

Ah, must have gotten those mixed up then, my bad

How would these rules be enforced in the first place?

I don’t know if you know this, but Lemmy is also using an altered version of ActivityPub to federate things like downvotes.

Your rules are flawed.

I stopped reading when I saw a copy-pasted definition of the word “exploit”.

This article thinks we’re dumb as shit.

And how often has that been the case so far?

As opposed to everything being exclusive to one platform, like you seem to prefer???

Standard Notes is decent. Very rough around the edges, but it does what it’s told.

It’s simple. The people using Evernote didn’t care about being locked in.

I think you misunderstood me. I’m saying that whenever someone finds out about Lemmy, it’s because they’ve already sworn off Facebook, Reddit and other big platforms.

Do you think such a person will go back to a Facebook-owned platform just because it happens to federate?

No need to be a psychic if you can parse basic terms of service. At least I hope for your sake you’re capable of doing that.

Anything to defend your precious corpo, huh

And that’s how we know you’re out of points to make. Must suck if that’s the only comeback you have against people who aren’t defending anyone.

People who would register on normal instances or threads would only use Threads because of being lazy and then be lazy after Meta pulls out.

Isn’t this already the case? I find it unlikely for someone to find Lemmy without having developed a dislike for platforms owned by big corpos.

Once again, you chose the wrong platform with Steam. Other stores have been around at that time too.

I suppose I will have to repeat this for you a couple more times.

Will the Mastodon and Lemmy instances we have today cease to exist because of Threads federating?

I’m just genuinely curious how we could be worse off than before.

How about you start supporting stores that actually do that?

Chances are you don’t even know about them. And you call us short-sighted.

How is it hard to understand for you that with Steam, you chose the wrong platform to play old games?

XMPP is still alive and well, is it not?

How is this shitty? Windows 7 isn’t even supported by Microsoft anymore.

If you were looking to preserve games for playing on old computers, you chose the wrong platform.

Do not rely on that.

Case in point: Arkham City.

Go tell any ad company that you have a website with X million weekly users, and they will suck your dick to place their ads there.