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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Inductor@feddit.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So Google used Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy and looks like Facebook is aiming to use ut as well

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[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

Every corp is aiming at that. It's a strategy that worked very well for MS (and the CIA).

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[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

To be fair, Microsoft didn't invent this, they only showed that it could be implemented in the tech industry. To some extent, basically every big tech company does this now.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

These days, we just call it “the stages of enshitification”. And basically every large tech company is doing something like that

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

“Enshitification is when our preferred open social web standard gets adopted by a major corporation.”

Wat.

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[–] Aux@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

No, that article is full of bull shit.

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