2y ago

YSK about corporations' strategies to kill open source protocols

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

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

Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this.

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

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Embrace, extend, extinguish. Google also did that to rss/atom.
- Annoying. RSS is a superior platform for sitting through the firehose of content.
  You can still use it of course, and I do. It's just annoying that it's largely unheard of.
  
  So many sites don't even provide RSS anymore. It used to come enabled out of the box for every content management system, now only in the large old ones like Drupal.