@aniket I don't think Mozilla is about either libre anything or privacy, they just utilise open source software because it happens to be very convenient.
The US government got the person who popularized RSS to kill themselves rather than continue developing new technologies, you really think your corporate-sponsored social media is going to collapse state capitalism?
@clacke Consider if WebFinger lets you lookup URIs. This means if the URL is unavailable (domain expired etc.) data is still stored in the hive mind of the !fediverse. You wouldn't have to contact the original server, any server that had received the object would do. Wouldn't that be nice?
Well, one example in RFC7033 is author and copywrong information about a website. So you should be able to fetch information about a notice URI from WebFinger whenever someone implements that properly.
Yeah, you're right. Just like how it's perfectly fine to say "I care about the environment" and then eat meat every day. Puh-lease. Everyone can stop eating meat as well as use !fs. If not, we should all get together and make sure that organisations and civilians don't depend on proprietary technology because they "have three kids" as an excuse. Having people excuse themselves is counterproductive to the cause. Remember that essentially no tools that people depend on are older than the developers that maintain them. We've barely gone through one generation of software development - it's far too early to declare hypocrisy as justified.