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[-] Steve@communick.news 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Short sighted mistake. Terrible Idea.

~~Adopt, Extend, Destroy~~ Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. That's the game plan. It's worked so many times in the past.

[-] neveraskedforthis@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago
[-] Steve@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

That's what I was thinking of!

[-] kpw@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

It only works if people stop using Mastodon once Threads stops federating. ActivityPub is dead they will say.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.run 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah and I'm not going to stop using my instance I love it to much, Maybe I will boot up my own personal one if anything. Just glad more people will hopefully understand and can use the Fediverse

[-] kpw@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

When the big corporations leave people just need to reist the "oh the user numbers are so small now, the Fediverse must be outdated" fallacy. Just like XMPP. Still works great, we just need people to use it instead of the silos which are popular now.

[-] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

People need to reject the idea that "bigger number = better service". The big players like that line of thinking because it cements their role of dominance and discourages competition. The fediverse will never be as big as Meta and it's all the better for it. IDK about others but I prefer a small, active userbase with interests similar to my own over an ocean of crap

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They don't need to do that when the fedi is a thousandth of the size of their social networks lol. It's hilarious that you think they need our user base.

[-] Steve@communick.news 14 points 1 year ago

They don't care about the user base we have today. They want to eliminate the potential user base we may have in a decade.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's not so much about wanting this user base as it is eliminating potential competition and maybe stamping out a place on the internet where people can freely and openly communicate.

[-] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Implementing ActivityPub at their scale costs way more than allowing a drop-in-the-bucket network to go on existing. The fediverse is not really competition for them

[-] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You can't really Embrace, Extend, Extinguish an open standard. Anybody can continue to use the unextended version and that's exactly what would happen if Meta tried it. They can't force servers to update or implement meta-specific features

this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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