Some late snark on Gruber’s Not That Kind of Open

The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open. If Facebook were on the cusp of launching a Gmail-like email service, would you preemptively declare that your email server would block them? To me that’s what this “Anti-Meta Fedi Pact” is arguing for.

In this scenario, would Facebook’s email service receive and catalog every email I send no matter the recipient? #meta