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Comment by ghqst | Hacker News Reader

I think this is a prime example of why the fediverse won't even come close to replacing Twitter for Twitter users.

Nah. There are various people who call for policies like this, but then most reasonable instance admins ignore them, and the fediverse continues to operate.

The same thing has happened in the free software movement in general; some folks have called for copyleft-only, and the rest of the world has largely ignored them and is fine with shipping BSD licensed software along with GPL licensed software.

And now we have gazillions of phones going into the trash, unusable because of closed drivers making continued usage unviable. Nice.

There is constantly threats like that in Fediverse. For instance some threatened to defederate if Tumblr implements ActivityPub and don't remove Ads and what not.

In reality biggest servers still federate with most servers. With latest changes in Mastodon you can now see whom they don't federate. It's not huge list, and if you browse those who don't federate with, it's pretty obvious why.

A lot of those defederated services advertises themselves as some sort of free-speech absolutist alternatives.

I don't think OP's comment is in any way representative of the fediverse.

My point was moreso that this kind of attitude among the group of people who are technically adept enough to run servers is unattractive to the average user, who couldn't care less about the license of the open source software they're using.

Good.

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