I feel like this tactic can’t work if we stick to foss options. They can add all their shitty reels/stories/whatever else, if we stick with foss they can do jack shit about it.
Except that’s what happened with xmpp. Google and WhatsApp and Facebook all used to be xmpp. Once they had most their users they started ignoring the protocol and people who had regular xmpp servers we’re viewed as weird by the rest of society since they couldn’t see certain things and then to “fix” that, Google and Facebook stopped interoperating with xmpp and people said “hurray, no more broken stuff, thank you our giant tech overlords!”
I dunno, I prefer to think people, at least those here, tend to be a bit more tech savvy than the average user was back then. Maybe it’s hopeful thinking though.
Well assuming Meta has the same exact strategy with Threads, the Fediverse has a pretty vibrant community on its own. With threads, the Fediverse’s increases a ton, and then once they remove Fediverse support, the original community will probably stay with its original features and stuff, I doubt anyone from here will permanently migrate to Threads.
HOWEVER, that’s probably an extremely gross oversimplification because there’s probably a lot more that Meta could do to make things worse. I can’t think of how, and I don’t think I wanna see how they do it.
I guess my point is that unlike xmpp, people who have already been using the Fediverse will continue using it after it falls out of favor with big tech companies.
I used to use xmpp, jabber, and ICQ. I one of a few in school that used it. It wasn’t really popular to the general population. I would believe sms and smartphones really killed it.
A tactic used by Microsoft and Google in the past:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Basically they embrace an open standard , extend with proprietary nonsense and then extinguish it with sheer incompetency or greed.
This is everywhere and I am sick of seeing it lol (no attack to you)
I feel like this tactic can’t work if we stick to foss options. They can add all their shitty reels/stories/whatever else, if we stick with foss they can do jack shit about it.
Except that’s what happened with xmpp. Google and WhatsApp and Facebook all used to be xmpp. Once they had most their users they started ignoring the protocol and people who had regular xmpp servers we’re viewed as weird by the rest of society since they couldn’t see certain things and then to “fix” that, Google and Facebook stopped interoperating with xmpp and people said “hurray, no more broken stuff, thank you our giant tech overlords!”
I dunno, I prefer to think people, at least those here, tend to be a bit more tech savvy than the average user was back then. Maybe it’s hopeful thinking though.
I think the people using the Fediverse is already seen weird by the majority. I’m ok with that.
Well assuming Meta has the same exact strategy with Threads, the Fediverse has a pretty vibrant community on its own. With threads, the Fediverse’s increases a ton, and then once they remove Fediverse support, the original community will probably stay with its original features and stuff, I doubt anyone from here will permanently migrate to Threads.
HOWEVER, that’s probably an extremely gross oversimplification because there’s probably a lot more that Meta could do to make things worse. I can’t think of how, and I don’t think I wanna see how they do it.
I guess my point is that unlike xmpp, people who have already been using the Fediverse will continue using it after it falls out of favor with big tech companies.
I used to use xmpp, jabber, and ICQ. I one of a few in school that used it. It wasn’t really popular to the general population. I would believe sms and smartphones really killed it.
Exactly