@ricard @sophie The problem is that this is a well-established...

@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

Like 20 November at 12:45 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

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The Gym Nerd

@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.

20 November at 13:16 | Open on mastodon.social

Lianna

@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.

20 November at 13:48 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Jux [GD] // Cataclysm 81%

@lianna @ricard @sophie we have emoji reactions in the Fediverse, just not on Mastodon

20 November at 17:30 | Open on catodon.social

ogre magi

@lianna @ricard @Sophie the biggest upside to blue sky so far to me is that people are learning about fed now. if BS tries to get too stupid more people will know about their options by then.... I hope.

20 November at 20:02 | Open on mastodon.social