How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Everyone who’s into the fediverse concept should read this article.
These have been going on for a long time, the author kinda makes a mention to it, with a reference to MS’s long playbook of “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish”. IE’s growth, MS breaking Java, Office dominance; all had examples from that playbook. While MS hasn’t used it that much now compared to the past, don’t trust any Big Tech company to not do it when the opportunity presents itself.
Meta has already tried it with Instagram stories after the success of Snapchat. The possibility of them attempting it with federated platforms after what appears to be two migrations to the Fediverse (one from Twitter and the other from Reddit) is definitely there, especially given Meta’s reputation.
The main reason M$ stopped doing it is it did not work as intended in the long term. If anything, it hurt them in the long term. Hence c#. Hence their awkward embrasure of linux.
Interesting article. I’m still pretty new to the concept off federation but I’ll keep an eye out for these kinds of takeovers in the future.
These have been going on for a long time, the author kinda makes a mention to it, with a reference to MS’s long playbook of “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish”. IE’s growth, MS breaking Java, Office dominance; all had examples from that playbook. While MS hasn’t used it that much now compared to the past, don’t trust any Big Tech company to not do it when the opportunity presents itself.
Meta has already tried it with Instagram stories after the success of Snapchat. The possibility of them attempting it with federated platforms after what appears to be two migrations to the Fediverse (one from Twitter and the other from Reddit) is definitely there, especially given Meta’s reputation.
The main reason M$ stopped doing it is it did not work as intended in the long term. If anything, it hurt them in the long term. Hence c#. Hence their awkward embrasure of linux.