Everyone who’s into the fediverse concept should read this article.

  • HidingCat
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    31 year ago

    These have been going on for a long time, the author kinda makes a mention to it, with a reference to MS’s long playbook of “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish”. IE’s growth, MS breaking Java, Office dominance; all had examples from that playbook. While MS hasn’t used it that much now compared to the past, don’t trust any Big Tech company to not do it when the opportunity presents itself.

    • Mars2k21
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      41 year ago

      Meta has already tried it with Instagram stories after the success of Snapchat. The possibility of them attempting it with federated platforms after what appears to be two migrations to the Fediverse (one from Twitter and the other from Reddit) is definitely there, especially given Meta’s reputation.

    • sparseMatrix
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      11 year ago

      The main reason M$ stopped doing it is it did not work as intended in the long term. If anything, it hurt them in the long term. Hence c#. Hence their awkward embrasure of linux.