It feels like the web is becoming more closed every year — fewer open forums, more platforms locking away data and communities behind logins. What do you think are the biggest forces driving the decline of the open internet? Are walled gardens like Discord the main problem, or is it something else like artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, surveillance, or changing user habits?
Last time I thought Matrix ran on ActivityPub like the rest of the Fediverse, though.
Matrix is federated but it is its own protocol. It doesn’t use ActivityPub.