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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which is fine, ActivityPub is an open protcol. You don't even need to cleanroom, its all there. The AGPL is a shield against corporate interests, given how things are going that's a much needed feature.

[–] nephs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

There's also strong opinions if open source instances should federate with closed source instances, for reasons of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish