Submitted 10 months ago by blue_berry@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12225991
TL;DR: The common view on Meta’s Threads is that it will be either all good or all bad, leading to oversimplified and at the end contra productive propositions like the Fedipact. But in reality, it’s behaviour will most likely change dynamically over time, and therefore, to prevent us getting in a position, in which Threads can actually perform EEE on us, we need to adapt a dynamic strategy as well.
People wanted the Fediverse to get more popular. So more popular it gets, more big companies and an like will join the Fediverse. So mission accomplished, everyone. 🥳
Defederation still a thing? What happened I thought it was going save the Fediverse from this stuff.
My argument was that monetary compensation of some form would drive participation, and that participation could take the form of simple things like ads all the way to developers coding lemmy instances to accept ads and other preferred features desired by corporations like user tracking, algorithms to place preferred posts, communities and/or users at the top of views, etc… Make the software free and give instance operators a cut of any revenue, and bam, EEE wins. Way too easy, the burden of running the instances falls on the operator and with some nice EULA wording, probably the liability as well.
Of course, that hypothetical scenario hinges on corporations finding the lemmyverse worthwhile to exploit, which hopefully won’t happen.
The proper strategy is not to play the corpo game. Mass commercialization and corporate entities pushing to monopolize is the root cause of the problems that we have with the www. The only way to “win” is to exclude these known bad actors and prevent them from reshaping this place into another cesspit filled with ads and more coordinated efforts to subvert free societies.
Those E’s are backwards!
Its a pun on embrace, extend and extinguish de.wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_Extend_and_Extinguish
I see, is it backwards?
“abusive instance” that is not in production, thanks for jumping to conclusions and gatekeeping the Fed to hjust a bunch of nerds, that’s definitely what we need here.
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“but with its currently starting commercialization”
Wait. The fediverse is going commercial?
blue_berry@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I mean, that was a leap ahead, but there are currently a few companies directing towards the fediverse: Meta, Wordpress, Medium, Mozilla, Flipchart. Also look at the most recent The Verge arcticles about the fediverse, they are also pushing the point that the social web will be a growing market in 2024 (theverge.com/…/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastod…).
You could say that this is all hype, but I think its clear the “hobby phase” of the Fediverse is beginning to end and a new phase starts.
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They will take everything and shit on it.
What’s the point in being here if the corporations are coming here?
Carighan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No but there are basically two ways things can go: