I have a question for fediverse heads. Threads is federating with a bunch of the fediverse, but a lot more are "oh noes, EEE!!!!!!!?!" and actively blocking it. Which seems counterproductive, and quite a bit scaremongery.
Does anyone have an actual instance where Embrace Extend Extinguish actually worked? I mean, sun sued MS for it over Java and as far as I can tell Java is still doing fine. They wanted to EEE Linux too, back on the day. Again, seems to be doing fine....
@cpw I think EEE is a very vague and ill-defined threat, and people aren't necessarily afraid because they've seen it happen before, but rather because they just don't trust Meta and assume that's the end goal. It's probably not even close.
That said, I'm still happy to be on an instance that preemptively blocked Threads because I've completely lost count of how many times Meta has been sued for privacy violations so I don't want to make it easy by just giving them my data via federation.
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