> Recently, ActiviyStreams, ActivityPub, & other social web protocols have been doing ok. But we're still seeing only a very limited, unexpanding set of adopters. There hasn't been the kind of ultra-wide-scale adoption that tech like RSS/Atom had going, had pushing it forward. It's out there, but it's niche. And 100%, it's in many ways because content providers & platform providers both are trying to trump the social-benefit of open protocols, are desperate to capture the value themselves, while giving nothing away to a broader ecosystem.

I think this is where FF could have done something big, and maybe even saved themselves from irrelevance. Unfortunately, the time to start that was probably ten years ago, and if anything they've moved away from that sort of thing. Not sure it'd help, now, even if they changed course.