I had a scary thought: what if youtube decided to join the fediverse?

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• Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This is the concept behind ‘embrace, extend, extinguish’, basically.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don't think they care at all about what we're doing here on the Fediverse. Lemmy has like 46k users, PeerTube has like 20k users. That's next to nothing to them and on Youtube a single content creator might have a way bigger audience than all of Lemmy, Peertube, etc. It wouldn't be worth 10 minutes of their time to come up with an embrace and extinguish concept unless that changes substantially and get like 100x that many users. Ir there is something else to gain for them.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see how they could harm the fediverse as is. I don’t see how embrace extend extinguish could work, as if they extinguish, then the fediverse would just return to how it is now. There’s no way that people currently on Mastodon would decide to move to threads, as most are on there because they don’t trust big social media companies

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s no way that people currently on Mastodon would decide to move to threads

    Snazzy Labs did exactly that after unidirectional compatibility was enabled.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably the same thing that happened when Threads decided to join the fediverse.

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So basically sign-in with Google?

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t it be a game changer for the biggest websites to suddenly try to coax users and content creators with “one account to rule them all” solution?

  No, that would be ideal.

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