How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

I didn’t realise that Meta was becoming/is already compatible with the Fediverse.

I deleted my Facebook account long ago, I saw what it was becoming and decided I didn’t need that in my life.

What are everyone’s thoughts on this.

See: this post for where I first read about it.

  • gibsEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    Honest question, could threads federating backfire? If meta federates, suddenly everyone in EU will want a mastodon to be able to view Threads content, and mastodon has lots of much nicer and more mature apps, not to mention privacy concerns. I think it’s possible allowing Threads to federate could be very good for fediverse adoption in the short term at least.

    • @absGeekNZOPEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      I guess it could be possible, but looking at the XMPP <-> GoogleTalk situation, it is very unlikely.

      • Embrace the open standard
      • Extend it with some propriety add-on, and because you have 1000 times users, you now become the “standard”
      • Extinguish the open version of the standard because users expect that all the things should work together; and now the open versions are considered “less” because they cannot work with the propriety bits.