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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

XMPP.

They discuss that whole situation in detail in the linked article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sliceable_aspirin 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Candelestine 1 points 1 year ago

Yep.

I do like throwing cold water on things, I'm a big fan, but there's no cold water to throw here. Corporations are entities designed to pursue a single goal as efficiently as possible. If our destruction would aid that goal, then they will pursue it. To do otherwise would be a failure of their responsibility to society, which is not the same as an individual's responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta use the proper open source lincenses.

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