cpwDec 19, 2023

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....

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@cpw
I think Visual Studio Code did kill Atom, by adopting their addon-model and then literally buying GitHub and stopping Atoms development.
I would also say that AWS, Azure and Docker killed clean Open Source hosting on a scale and you now rely on them, which are attached to their commercial services or have to heavily compromise in building for scale.
I would also say Firebase replaced just storing data locally. Because they put the decent database abstraction behind using their servers.
Dec 19, 2023 at 5:57amTusky
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@cpw
I just remembered, Chrome did as well, Google now pretty dictates the whole Web-Standard and Firefox has to play along. Which Mozilla devs complain about quite frequently.
They now dictate what is acceptable tracking, changed their addon-system which makes ad-/tracking blocker addons impossible or their recent efforts to ensure "secure runtimes" and thus limit the free web even further and Firefox having to play along to be compatible