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fartington@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

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  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not even applicable here, and I thought we’d moved past spouting that on every post when it became apparent that meta actually weren’t trying to kill the fediverse

    The whole point is developing products to an open source standard, adding unneeded or complex features to ensure competition can’t keep up and gain market share, then shutting down your product and killing the whole standard.

    How does buying a company that makes proprietary products then closing down that company even come close to being the same thing?

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      when it became apparent that meta actually weren’t trying to kill the fediverse

      That’s not at all apparent. Isn’t Threads still an unmoderated cesspit?

      EEE can take years to do. You’re naive if you think that just because we’re in the first E that Meta are the good guys.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s more likely that Google knows that they will be under attack by a lot of hackers once they show their true colors in the future. I think they will represent the tech that will control all of us, using AI, robotics, implants and so on.

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  • Grangle1@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even the privacy/security people I follow say that despite Big Tech (MS, Google, Apple, etc) being privacy nightmares, they are pretty solid on their security, or at least no less secure than the alternatives. But when you combine efforts to maintain that security with those privacy nightmares, you get what you mention.

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