How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
  • bedrooms@kbin.social
    12·
    2 years ago

    I don’t have sympathy to GAFA, but the article oversimplifies the reality and jumps to the conclusion here and there. Broken logic is dangerous…

    Edit:

    For example,

    Since its inception, Facebook have been very careful to kill every competition. The easiest way of doing it being by buying companies that could, one day, become competitors. Instagram, WhatsApp to name a few, were bought only because their product attracted users and could cast a shadow on Facebook.

    This is oversimplification. Facebook not only acquired WhatsApp, but wanted access to its user data. So, it’s not “only because” they wanted to control WhatsApp before they become a rival.

    The article’s logic becomes sloppy like this every few sentences if not words.

    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 years ago

      I don’t see any large leaps.

      If threads uses activity pub, most activity pub users will be meta users using the meta client. Meta will not feel the pressure to conform to the activity pub implementation. They could add features as they want since all their users will use their client. This will cause a sudden incompatibility and the fediverse will have to be the one to fix the problem.

      If the fediverse wants to update the protocol to add a feature, we’d have to run it by meta first since they would have to update their client. If they drag their feet it would be hard to force the update knowing it will disconnect the majority of users from the fediverse.

      It’s the same situation described in the article with Google and XMPP.

      I don’t see any leaps or jumps. This could be how meta kills the fediverse and we’d be walking into it eyes wide open.