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[–] ActuallyASeal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be careful with that thinking. That way can lead to complacency. Big tech loves embrace, extend, extinguish

I could see a corp like Microsoft or Google or someone else seeing long term value in federated services. They could create a service utilizing the technology and spread it to their user base. Slowly add in some special sauce to their own version of it to attract more people to their part of it. Then break compatibility with everything else to stop someone from stealing users back.

[–] ayyndrew@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Meta is doing something with ActivityPub

[–] ActuallyASeal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like they smell blood in the water with Twitter's downward spiral.

Meta’s text-based platform will be decentralized and interoperable with Mastodon, which is built on the ActivityPub protocol.

That's what you have to look out for. They will exploit anything they can get their hands on if they think there is money to be made.

[–] LightProtector@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How exactly is Meta’s new platform going to work? It’s still confusing me a bit.