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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve been using (and paying for) Bitwarden for a few years now. There are slicker solutions but it does the job for me and I don’t really see any need to change.
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.
Taylor Swift. Not that I think she’s absurd. I just think she’d have absolutely zero time for Trump’s bullshit, and would probably write some very cutting lyrics about it.