• Steve@communick.news
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    9 months 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.

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      9 months ago

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

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        9 months 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

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          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the big corporations leave people just need to reist the “oh the user numbers are so small now, the Fediverse must be outdated” fallacy.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.

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            9 months 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

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      9 months 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.

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        9 months 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.

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      9 months 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