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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by itadakimasu@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Reddit would become compatible with Lemmy essentially making it it's own "instance", and suddenly 3rd party apps work with Reddit again.

Full circle.

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[-] saucyloggins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing. Someone wrote a good article about how Google bullied their way to kill XMPP. Something to keep in mind with what Meta is planning.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, instead of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish they did Embrace, Impede, Extinguish.

[-] jon@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's support a platform, make that platform dependent on you, then abandon the platform. The users who remain are left with the option of abandoning the platform as well, or sit in a graveyard.

[-] Yutopianist@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That article was a really interesting read! In my opinion, while integration can be a good thing for many aspects of the world, we can't expect the giant company to not try to swallow us whole, which is why we must stand up to monopolies.

[-] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Very good writeup. I remember learning about XMPP with gtalk and then it fading away. These things happen, and if we don't remember, well...

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