At this point it almost feels like these articles, of which one shows up every 3-5 days, are all just AI generated. They tick the required buzzwords like EEE and Enshittifcation, say absolutely nothing at all, and paint the dreary future scenarios with the same intentionally evasive care of a doomsday prophet avoiding getting nailed on any specifics.

You never get any infos about anything. Like:

• How would EEE even work in the context of ActivityPub? (assuming that's what they mean by "the fediverse", the use of which was the first big hint that humans didn't write this text)
• Why social media users are all game theory experts playing single victor zero sum games in their heads before they navigate to a web site, each and every time?
• How enshittification would look, or rather how it would affect other apps using AP?
• How enshittification of AP itself would look?

Ugh and probably a ton more. It's fun to go all doompriest on this topic for a while, but weeks later with the same context-free text repackaged and reposted ever time, it just feels silly.

Unless this is a caricature and I just got majorly wooshed. Then I look really silly now. 😅

This is nonsense. The fediverse isn't cryptocurrency. Having 51% of the fediverse doesn't give you any more control than having 1%. If your instance(s) implement a feature that the rest of the fediverse doesn't like, they can defederate.

Other instances either react by defederating, but because they only have 49 percent, due to network effects, they get extinct

If 49% of the fediverse defederates from the other 51%, it is now 100% of a new, smaller fediverse. You can't just claim that "network effects" will cause them to go extinct. Whether those instances have enough userbase to sustain a cohesive network depends on the actual number of instances/users. And the fediverse has sustained itself for over a decade with less than the current ~2 million accts and most of that time it had substantially less than 1 active accts.

It seems unlikely that a 51% attack will do anything worse than the ~30000% attackers we currently deal with.

This is a braindead take, I'm done with this community

This is just some random person's blog post and you people are acting like this is supposed to be journalism?