Comment on Can someone explain why so many people here are FOR blocking Threads.net on a server level?
TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The concept as I understand it is that Threads has the sheer volume of content to completely drown out the existing Fedi content if it fully opens the floodgates. If that occurs and say 90% of content becomes Threads and then they start making Threads only extensions to Activity Pub, servers will have to start patching those in and the Activity Pub project is defacto owned by Meta.
People also have issues with the Meta content moderation and the population on Threads, but as you noted that’s fixable on an individual and community level. The existential threat to the future of the Fediverse is why servers should defederate. Meta can’t and shouldn’t be trusted with any amount of power over this community project.
placatedmayhem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is called “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”. Microsoft coined the term internally for their responses to open standards in the 90’s and 00’s.
…wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lemmy World is doing a pretty good job of that themselves. I don’t hate them, but I don’t understand why.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
No, they aren’t. They aren’t by any means.
Maybe there are more posts from that instance, but there is no one trying to then extend the protocol with the objective of requesting special features and then killing off the protocol.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They haven’t gone that far yet, but they’re on their way. I didn’t think they were like that in the beginning either, but they certainly were advertising themselves to be the best place to go in the beginning for some unknown reason. They now try and take over every community and/or shut down smaller ones. An admin was curating things, which isn’t a great sign. Granted, it was just an admin, but I’m not welcome there anymore. They act like reddit, so I think of them like reddit. That’s just my take, you’re totally welcome to disagree, and you obviously do. I didn’t see the value in spreading out in the fediverse, now I do.