• Gsus4@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    We’re not free from it. If the fediverse took off and ISPs somehow ganged up on the activitypub protocol to force it to make money, some larger instances are going to crack, that’s what I mean.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand - why would ISPs gang up on ActivityPub? How would it force larger instances to “crack”?

      Are you saying that they would ramp up costs for utilizing the protocol specifically? Wouldn’t that go against Net Neutrality…?

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        1 year ago

        I understand, I’m speculating, but from what I’ve read it happens occasionally if you try to host your own email or chat server: you may get blacklisted. Or they could hypothetically hike the costs of certain server features needed to host your own instance instead of an established one.