Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well, that really puts things in perspective.
At Microsoft, this strategy was called “embrace, extend, extinguish”, but it’s important to realize that it isn’t a practice that’s exclusive to Microsoft.
punseye@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is Facebook/Meta attempting something similar by making Threads compatible with Mastodon?
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 9 months ago
Yes.
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 9 months ago
Once they achieve any saturation and market share, watch as they "extend" and "Improve" with proprietary things, that is where M$ was when People finally noticed and cared. The real problem with the metastization of the fediverse if there are means to extrapolate the ID here using info available via Failbook to a FB profile.