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The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net (fedipact.veganism.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by registrert@lemmy.sambands.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 103 points 2 years ago (42 children)

Some instances know their embrace, extend, extinguish history and some don’t.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (19 children)

Can you explain what that means in this context? How does defederating Threads prevent Meta from extinguishing anything?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)
  • Embrace: Join the fediverse with your existing user base that dwarfs the fediverse’s existing user base, and with infinitely more money.
  • Extend: Use your size, in terms of users and capital, to steer the direction of the ActivityPub fediverse standard to your advantage and your competitors’ disadvantage. You see everyone else as a competitor because you are a corporation seeking to monopolize the user base for profit.
  • Extinguish: See what Google did to XMPP for a concrete example.
[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or what Google does right now with Chrome and web standards.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For those unaware of Google’s latest web browser malarkey: Web Environment Integrity

EFF/Cory Doctorow/Jacob Hoffman-Andrews: Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say

Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites. Google says this will reduce ad fraud. In practice, it reduces your control over your own computer, and is likely to mean that some websites will block access for everyone who's not using an "approved" operating system and browser. It also raises the barrier to entry for new browsers, something Google employees acknowledged in an unofficial explainer for the new feature, Web Environment Integrity (WEI).

[–] TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I genuinely want Gopher back.

I want to share information and to communicate. I don't want every bowel movement tracked and monetizes. I don't want 30 cross site requests when going to a news site. A single story should not require 10MB of JavaScript libraries.

I have no doubt that most of the authors of the original internet are aghast at what their high-minded creation has itself created.

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