I think companies themselves would benefit from having employees dedicate some percentage of their time to exciting stuff, new attempts at solving problems etc. (I currently do this with side projects)

It works for managing the engineer appetite to playing with new tech, learn and be up to date, and in the end not over engineer the main product that is probably the main income for the company and most likely benefits from being boring and stable.

I don’t get what is the “application” in this context. Is that the Lemmy server or kbin server, which use the ActivityPub protocol? And couldn’t this be solved with a sort of .apub at the end of each resource, like the .json used to work for Reddit?