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Anti-Meta Fedi Pact (fedipact.online)
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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

but... why?
Wouldn't more content be good?
why would we want to punish meta for adopting open standards? shouldn't they and everyone else be encouraged?

[โ€“] sznio 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think most people worry about a Embrace Extend Extinguish scenario.

I predict this:

  1. Meta comes out with their own mastodon server, open source and free
  2. They extend it with a boatload of features
  3. Instance admins switch to the Meta implementation in order to be compatible
  4. Once enough admins are reliant on Meta, kill the open-source server and go closed source
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