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Apple made Mastodon guide (apps.apple.com)
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Is Apple going to make a Mastodon server? I think that'd be pretty cool. In Apple fashion, it would require an app only available on iPhone and Mac, and this app wouldn't be able to connect to third party instances.

But it would move like half the US to Mastodon, which would be great.

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[–] Cougar@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Please no... For the love of Foss, no. Apple would start making private changes to the ActivityPub protocol to support mundane things like images and polls in their own way while images and polls from other instances wouldn't load properly and would be in a green bubble.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Four of five times, you're right about Apple's M.O. But every once in awhile they surprise me like with their WebKit activity.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

History lesson

WebKit is only open source because its a fork of KHTML, originally developed by the KDE project ^[0]^ for the Konqueror browser ^[1]^. KHTLM was developed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) ^[2]^, which limits companies from taking the hard work of open source projects and claiming them as their own without giving back to the community.

If Apple's surprising you with the "open code" released under the WebKit project, it's because they're legally requried to. We can thank the Free Software Foundation's LGPL for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License

[–] elouboub@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

Ahhh, in true capitalistic fashion: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Everyone learned from Microsoft.