The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

  • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That is not the worst case, by a long shot

    And you’re not just being optimistic, you’re being naive

    Since you clearly didn’t read the article the commenter linked I’ll sum up the important point:

    Corporations routinely infiltrate and integrate with open source in order to destroy it.

    Meta will implement federation, then they will “extend” the specification with a bunch of new features that the other places of the fediverse can’t put out as fast, making anyone talking to a meta user at a disadvantage, just like how Apple calls out non-iMessage participants in a group text.

    They’ll also likely implement a different specification than they publish, so that anyone implementing the meta features fails due to bad instructions

    It’s been done multiple times before, for decades

    Ffs, I’m just waiting for Microsoft to start pulling shit with the Linux foundation now that they have majority seats

    these corporations are not your friends, they are not on your side, they don’t even see you as slaves, you are livestock

    • phazed09@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Using the iMessage analogy, we’re currently in a state where green bubbles can’t interact with blue bubbles at all. Nobody should be expecting full interop with a corporate platform, but for the long run I’d rather have partial interop at arms length.

      Embrace extend extinguish only applies if platform is so focused that it cannot sustain itself without the extend phase, and the extend phase cannot happen without something to embrace.

    • StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m just waiting for Microsoft to start pulling shit with the Linux foundation now that they have majority seats

      A majority?! Fucking hell!