Someone mentioned how Facebook was trying to squash the federation interest by joining it then “improving” the technology through proprietary development until everyone becomes dependent on it. I forget the name of the strategy but Microsoft was the one who popularized it. But it seems like this is a variation of it by just being dishonest about blueskyy’s “decentralization” ___
And yes, unlike Bluesky, Facebook's upcoming platform, threads.net, is supposed to be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon, Lemmy, and dozens of other bits of Fediverse software. They have held meetings with several large Mastodon instance admins under NDA. Their Android app accidentally got published for a split second on Google Play. It is coming very soon. There is currently a campaign for Fediverse instance admins to agree to block the shit out of whatever they roll out. Over 500 instances have signed up so far.
In terms of Federated platforms, XMPP is the greatest example. Google "embraced" it as the core of their Google Talk application, made their own changes while refusing to incorporate changes made to the spec, stifled innovation in XMPP applications because none of those new features would be compatible with the Google Talk users, then just dropped it overnight when they killed Google Talk and replaced it with Hangouts.
Someone mentioned how Facebook was trying to squash the federation interest by joining it then “improving” the technology through proprietary development until everyone becomes dependent on it. I forget the name of the strategy but Microsoft was the one who popularized it. But it seems like this is a variation of it by just being dishonest about blueskyy’s “decentralization” ___
"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
And yes, unlike Bluesky, Facebook's upcoming platform, threads.net, is supposed to be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon, Lemmy, and dozens of other bits of Fediverse software. They have held meetings with several large Mastodon instance admins under NDA. Their Android app accidentally got published for a split second on Google Play. It is coming very soon. There is currently a campaign for Fediverse instance admins to agree to block the shit out of whatever they roll out. Over 500 instances have signed up so far.
In terms of Federated platforms, XMPP is the greatest example. Google "embraced" it as the core of their Google Talk application, made their own changes while refusing to incorporate changes made to the spec, stifled innovation in XMPP applications because none of those new features would be compatible with the Google Talk users, then just dropped it overnight when they killed Google Talk and replaced it with Hangouts.
Interesting. I wonder what the admins who are siding with Facebook are getting from this