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Nah. There are just a lot of them, and most of them have access to the Internet.
IT/tech/media lawyer by trade but mostly posting about other things. Rarely entirely serious. Fond of otters and dogs, scarily obsessive about music and old videogames. He/him.
Nah. There are just a lot of them, and most of them have access to the Internet.
It involves spending money, but I wonder whether a Synology NAS might suit you rather well? Synology Drive, Synology Photos et al make a pretty respectable replacement for the Googles.
Worshipping guns.
I doubt we’ll see ads in the form we know them from places like Twitter and Reddit. We may start seeing instances being sponsored by (or even operated by) businesses, and people can federate with them or not as they choose.
I also think paid subs will be a growth area and honestly this is the model I’d be most comfortable with, although I acknowledge the risk of excluding people who don’t have disposable money to spend on such things.
ActivityPub is a W3C standard. I’m not sure how one can be “in talks” with a standard.
You wouldn’t believe the amount of legal ink that has been spilled trying to work out what the fuck the Do What The Fuck You Want To licence actually means, legally.