So the Verge article for which I wrote some thoughts...

So the Verge article for which I wrote some thoughts about Jack Dorsey announcing #Bluesky is out and it used only a few sentences from what I came up with, so I wanna share the full thing...

I was asked, if Twitter did indeed adopt #ActivityPub instead of coming up with something new, would it be better or worse for the decentralized social web?

Like 13 Dec 2019 at 2:24 | Open on mastodon.social

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Eugen Rochko

One commonly mentioned danger of a large corporate player like Twitter coming into the decentralized social world is the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish tactic, wherein one entity adopts a common protocol, and once it acquires a large marketshare then makes itself incompatible through custom changes, locking its users in and leaving the common protocol for dead.

13 Dec 2019 at 2:24 | Open on mastodon.social

lorabe

@Gargron you are being mature and that's good.

Wether you like it or not, Eugene is the biggest figure in the fediverse and adopting such posture only promotes the fediverse. This is a revolution on social media, i hope it remains in the future as ethic as it is today.

13 Dec 2019 at 4:02 | Open on quey.org

Mike Flugennock

@Gargron Worse, absolutely worse.Jack Dorsey enables fascists and is straight-up toxic, and should be chased out of decentralized social media by a large mob with tire irons and baseball bats.

No, seriously; we should be displaying open public hostility to Dorsey's project.

13 Dec 2019 at 17:50 | Open on mastodon.art

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