How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
The teaching I get from this is: Dont let Meta dictate the protocol. As soon as they become incompatible, let them stay incompatible until they follow. And be happy with the users who were smart enough to stay with the reliable platform.
This won’t work if Meta gains enough users to swing their weight around. Microsoft does the same thing with Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and it’s not something to just ignore.
This won’t work if Meta gains enough users to swing their weight around
Why not? If they “swing their weight around” and the existing userbase ignores it, nothing happens. The historical worry is that users will leave and go to the more feature rich platform, but this is already a clunky, unpolished, niche platform and the existing userbase has chosen it.
So if Meta joins the fediverse and releases their own extension that the existing community ignores (or more likely takes inspiration from and rewrites in an open way), what are you worried will happen?
The teaching I get from this is: Dont let Meta dictate the protocol. As soon as they become incompatible, let them stay incompatible until they follow. And be happy with the users who were smart enough to stay with the reliable platform.
This won’t work if Meta gains enough users to swing their weight around. Microsoft does the same thing with Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and it’s not something to just ignore.
Why not? If they “swing their weight around” and the existing userbase ignores it, nothing happens. The historical worry is that users will leave and go to the more feature rich platform, but this is already a clunky, unpolished, niche platform and the existing userbase has chosen it.
So if Meta joins the fediverse and releases their own extension that the existing community ignores (or more likely takes inspiration from and rewrites in an open way), what are you worried will happen?