The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.
We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.
@mike
My concern is -- can Meta use this linkage to scrape all of my Mastodon activity? (We didn't think they could scrape us before the Cambridge Analytica scandal either.)
@taoish A well placed concern. They can do that without federating. Google has already indexed the entirety of the fediverse.