Imagine Lemmy becoming so popular it drives Reddit to support ActivityPub or go extinct
Imagine Lemmy becoming so popular it drives Reddit to support ActivityPub or go extinct
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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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
Yep, instead of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish they did Embrace, Impede, Extinguish.
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.
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.
When personal profit is involved, expect the worst...IME
When capitalism is involved, expect the worst
FTFY /p
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...