There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.
We kept losing, and will keep losing, because billionaires and megacorps simply have the money to move worlds if doing so aligns with their ‘interests’ (ie money). This hasn’t change, and won’t change now either; the Fediverse is done for.
There's a long term silver lining though. People keep learning. Constant exposure to manipulation makes us more resistent to it. Consider how much the Internet has trained you to recognize scammers, salesmen, trolls, instigators, demagogues and so on.
ActivityPub won't ever "truly" die, it might lose the chance of becoming "the salvation from mega corporations running the internet" though. We'll always have the possibility of running small-ish, tight-knit instances.
I don't think it was ever going to be the salvation from mega corporations. The internet itself was touted as that, but corporations figured out how to capture and own most of it. No reason they wouldn't do the same thing for ActivityPub if it became as common place as the Internet itself.