Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jul 5, 2023
No Mark. Let's not. #fediblock
You know, it is a good thing, that Meta is creating an ActivityPub/Fediverse compatible social media system with Threads because it instantly legitimizes the protocol. That said, it could be argued Microsoft did the same for HTML/HTTP when it built a web browser in the 1990s, but I still managed to avoid using Internet Explorer except when absolutely necessary over most of the past 30 years. The important thing is the underlying open system and freedom to choose.
Show threadJay
@chris Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is so ingrained in the history of silicon valley that I'm surprised anyone sees that as anything but an opening attack move. Google did it with XMPP too.
Jul 5, 2023 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jul 5, 2023
@ve3mal That is a risk for sure, but not one we can actively stop. At some point it is all up to how internet users and service providers react. I see there being enough momentum already behind the protocol itself that it is more like HTML than XMPP.
Show threadJayJul 5, 2023
@chris Federation is the lever they use. HTML isn't federated, so the "fediverse" is more like XMPP. When one large company has enough control, and they build-in enough incompatibility that it drives users to their particular instance to avoid UX frustrations, they eventually just de-federate and rely on the network effect to kill off everything else.
Show threadRob BosJul 5, 2023
@chris
Yeah. Is this going to be Google and XMPP or AOL and HTTP? Or somewhere in between? I wish I knew. They have a lot of distrust to overcome, but our trust may not even be relevant to them.
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