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Corporations will attempt to fuck up the Fediverse like they did with the majority of the internet (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Linux is a very unique project in many ways, so I don’t think it’s the best example.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's Wikipedia as another example.

We shouldn't let them make us act like we've already lost.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wikipedia is also a bad example though…

ActivityPub, as a protocol, is particularly vulnerable to EEE, since a corporation can create their own implementation and still talk to existing instances - allowing them to gradually extend the protocol, without forcing a mass migration to their service from the get go.

With Wikipedia, for example, they would basically have to create a competing site, and users of Wikipedia will not see any content from that site unless they actively go to it.

Edit: BTW, I don’t see this as admitting defeat; if anything, these migrations from service to service over time show that the corporations never win in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With Wikipedia, for example, they would basically have to create a competing site, and users of Wikipedia will not see any content from that site unless they actively go to it.

So... Wikia, aka Fandom?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fandom and Wikipedia are both wikis, but they serve a different purpose, they don’t really compete with each other AFAIK.