this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Good-faith question for you admins to laymen like myself; what do you believe you are protecting yourselves from by blocking Threads? Isn't the nature of the Fediverse resistant, if not immune, to corotate shenanigans? Isn't the only thing you're accomplishing by defederating Theads is that you're just making yourselves invisible to a large userbase who are too lazy to care about their own personal data?
We're all still protected, no?
They want to avoid Meta from repeating history:
Embrace, Extend and Extinguish
I'm aware of that concept, but I'm having a hard time understanding how that applies to the Fediverse. It seems like we have an inherent protection from that tactic, even if we disregard defederation as an option.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Here’s an article that explains how it can still happen with decentralized platforms
That actually doesn't seem to give any context of HOW it could work for the Fediverse. All I see is "we are certain to lose", but doesn't go into what sort of mechanisms or tactics could be implemented to do a takeover.
Am I missing something?
What I would do if I were Zuck is the following: First I'd federate and leech a little bit off the pre-existing community. Then, I'd start buffing out my version. I could outpace the open source team easily if I wanted, adding things like video hosting, that are too resource-intensive for smaller Instances. I'd basically compete in features and polish, which are very important to less tech savvy consumers.
In the meantime, I'd be tinkering with my own Instance, seeing how much more data can be squeezed out of the Fediverse. I'd probably buy some of the largest Instances and assimilate them, just to keep the rest of the space feeling small compared to mine. Let brand loyalty do the rest.
Any time they come up with a new feature I like, I take it. I don't share mine though, I don't share anything I'm not forced to. The goal is to cap their growth, basically squashing awareness of them by making sure that when average people think Fediverse, they think Meta. The rest of it is just weird tech hobby junk for nerds.