Alex Heath (@alexeheath@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image Some more reporting on the Fediverse aspect of this app:
  •  binwiederhier   ( @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh ) English
    11•1 year ago

    I just read this article and what Meta is doing then triggered all the alarm bells!

    This tactic even has a Wikipedia page: Embrace, extend, and extinguish

    From the Wiki (quite enlightening):

    The strategy’s three phases are:

    • Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
    • Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the “simple” standard.
    • Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.
    •  LordofCandy   ( @LordofCandy@kbin.social ) 
      5•1 year ago

      Remember when Microsoft tried to take over the web standards? Remember how that turned out for them? I’m not saying you shouldn’t have concern but the take over and extinguish takes a true majority adoption and in this age we get more fragmentation than we really see true consolidation. Not that it can’t happen. But possible vs probable and all that.

      •  lemmyvore   ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English
        8•1 year ago

        Remember when Microsoft tried to take over the web standards? Remember how that turned out for them?

        IIRC they had to be sued by the US federal government and Sun (over IE and Java, respectively) to back off. Which is not going to happen for the Fediverse. And it’s not going to happen again in today’s day and age period.

        To wit, remember when Google took over the web and now defines the browser standard on both mobile and PC and nobody can do anything about it?