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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just don’t think it’s possible for something to kill the fediverse. And if it is possible, then it is a flaw in the design of the fediverse and needs to be fixed.

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  • Dieinahole@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you planning to pay for the extra bandwith to deal with all the additional traffic?

    Meta will.

    And then when they own the servers amd all the traffic, lemmy will be quietly murdered.

    Quietly, because they'll control the traffic, and therefore the narrative

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And then when they own the servers amd all the traffic

      That’s just…not how any of this works.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Today no.

        Come make your instance on Meta™ it’s free™!! Its fast! It’s yours!!

        Then later they’ll wreck havoc on our small servers making them slow and unreliable, making their servers even more interesting for people. And so on.

        And that’s just one way among lots of ways.

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  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All activity pub needed to do was create a user rights guidelines that prevents profiting off the data. Meta wouldn’t have touched the Fediverse with the 10-foot pole, if that were the case.

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    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lololol and what legal mechanism are you going to use to enforce that?

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    • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ActivityPub is a protocol, not a fucking organization. It literally has no agency.

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      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can licence a protocol

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. It’s basically pen testing.

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People have been writing about this ad nauseum. It’s the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Join fediverse, extend the spec with so that not all clients are compatible with all features, repeat as necessary until everyone is using your client, finally drop compatibility with other clients.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My sweet summer child.

    With a network that big, they have to be very careful, and really try, if they don’t want our servers to just go kaboom.

    Or we just defederate from any of those attempts.

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