Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
„This is the right to leave Twitter without losing your followers and followees. This would be a mandate to stand up an API, and it would be, probably, an ActivityPub API. It’s a pretty good standard and its deficiencies can be remedied more easily than we can design a new standard. You put those two together, Twitter can’t keep anyone prisoner, and Twitter will have to treat the people who choose to stay well.“
Doctorow seems to contradict himself, answering a question about legal, not technical, barriers by describing what end up technical barriers.
But I don't know how this ideal would translate into implementation anyway. ActivityPub is built on walled gardens at the instance level, which may be better or worse than one centralized walled garden, but it still leaves users at the mercy of the folks running the instances.
It's a huge fault in the core design of ActivityPub.
