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I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When we've already seen this strategy play out in the form of Microsoft's great EEE, it's hard not to assume malevolent intentions when a mega-corporation suddenly starts getting buddy-buddy with the indies (who are creating an adjacent product) out of nowhere.

You don't chop down a big tree on one go. You chop, chop, chop away over and over until eventually the trunk is too weak to support the rest of the tree.

If they can pull enough users and developers away from the Fediverse and ActivityPub, then it'll kill off (or extinguish) the whole thing.