Meta, Facebook's parent company, is looking to launch their own fediverse platform. Some people are already advocating to block it en masse.
@ccunix@lemmy.ml
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Not really no.

The process of “embrace, extend and extinguish” has been used multiple times to destroy FLOSS projects from the inside.

Of the top of my head:

  • Kerberos
  • Office formats
  • XMPP

I’ve just got back from a run so my brain is not fully connected, so others can give other examples.

Meta do not want to join the party for fun. They want to join because it is the only way they can smother it.

@Kissaki@feddit.de
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Can you elaborate on them? Stating just the names requires you to already be aware of how they were taken over.

@Kaldo@beehaw.org
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@Cowbob45@beehaw.org
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They’ve been doing this for a long time now. Thanks for the info my friend I will make sure to spread that page around and make sure everyone knows about this dirty tactic that big corpos use to kill competition.

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