Lemmy

12535 readers

3 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

nutomic@lemmy.ml

Resist corporate olive branches - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is their motto (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Companies have strategically undermined community driven projects in the past many times. We should all keep an eye out for corporate movements in this space. I felt the duty to spread this awareness.

[YSK about corporations' strategies to kill open source protocols] cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/571039

[https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html]

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

top 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Fickle_Ferret@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This happened with the open source messaging service that ran on the internet service layer, google killed that I believe.

[–] federico3@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Here's a summary: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

[–] sliceable_aspirin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, should serve as a corollary to the "cloud is just someone else's computer" meme.

[–] melonplant@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing, I had no idea there was a messaging format like XMPP

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Gotta use the proper open source lincenses.