Gregory's Server
@sophie Can't we just turn on federation and everybody lives in their own instance but can chat with each other?
Is this too much to ask? 😢
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 @lianna @ricard @sophie I heard that so many times when Meta "wanted" to open up threads to activity pub. You can not EEE a network that is not relying on venture capital to exist. If they opt out we go back to where we are now. I don't see a problem in that. The reality is now, that meta pretends for like a year to open up for federation but they don't really do it because they don't want people inside to know that there exists a whole #fediverse outside.  @TheGymNerd @ricard @sophie You are ignoring the likely possibility that a lot of people will begin depending on their add-ons and proprietary extensions for their user experience, and if they rug-pull out of there and "opt-out", then people will be forced to follow. Many will. |
@ricard @sophie The problem is that this is a well-established tactic for corporations like BlueSky to snuff out community-driven "competition".
They're trying to kill us off.
First they embrace the enemy technology (this is where Bluesky supports federation), then they extend its functionality to where people depend on your add-ons (say if they extended ActivityPub by something like emoji reactions), and then they use that leverage to extinguish the competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish
@ricard @sophie The problem is that this is a well-established tactic for corporations like BlueSky to snuff out community-driven "competition".
They're trying to kill us off.
First they embrace the enemy technology (this is where Bluesky supports federation), then they extend its functionality to where people depend on your add-ons (say if they extended ActivityPub by something like emoji reactions), and then they use that leverage to extinguish the competition.