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Cake day: March 23rd, 2022
  • Bloops@lemmygrad.mltoFediverse@lemmy.ml•The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net
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    11 months ago

    Here’s one way it could happen

    1. Facebook joins the Fediverse, becoming the largest instance
    2. Majority of Fediverse embraces this
    3. Facebook decides to deviate slightly from ActivityPub
    4. Not wanting to be disconnected, majority of Fediverse follows them
    5. The real, ActivityPub-based Fediverse is dead (or as small as it was when it started) and now Facebook controls its (former) instances
  • Bloops@lemmygrad.mltoFediverse@lemmy.ml•The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net
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    11 months ago

    No, projects like the Fediverse require initial protectionism. If you let megacorporations into your project, they will dominate and gain control over how the protocol develops in the future. Google Chrome’s huge share of users has enabled it to get dangerously close to locking other browsers out of most of the Internet (the Web Integrity API shenanigans are just the start). Chrome also removed support for JPEG XL, killing that attempt at a standard and enshrining its own WebP. It’s called “Embrace, extend, and extinguish”.

    If the Fediverse actually wants to grow, it must unite against this. Otherwise we will end up with a couple hundred thousand Fedipact hardliners and millions on Facebook 2. No progress will have been made.