"Meta will play nice" the shills said.
"They won't EEE you're being paranoid", they said.
"They'll follow the standard", they said.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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I keep seeing people hating on the EEE crowd. Finally meta makes a move that proves we were right.
im gonna be a facebool conspiracy theorist here : reddit mabye got meta to EEE the fediverse
Yeah, right. And they come in on flying saucers.
EEE?
Edit: When did people start referring to embrace, extend, extinguish as EEE? I've heard of the term plenty for the past ~24 years but never seen this acronym before? Ah well...
embrace, extend, execute
What Microsoft tried to do to Java in the 2000's
What google did with the precursor of matrix. Forgot the name.
xmpp? i just needto say that xmpp is still around, and i strongly prefer it over matrix.
The precursor of reddit is also still there. Google kicked it out of relevance all those years back.
I read about it since I have a matrix instance and shopped alternatives. What would you say are the points it has over matrix?
It just seems faster in every client that I've tried. There's also a lot of software that's built around it, and crucially, my xmpp bridge isn't banned from joining Libera IRC channels.
Interesting! Thanks for mentioning it.
Embrace, extend, extinguish
Sorry for the n00b question, but how does a more “redditesque” Lemmy work with a more “twitteresque” service, and vice versa?
Actually pretty well. I've seen mastodon users around a few times.
It doesn't, this is pretty much just for them linking with Mastodon.
Both use activity pub protocol. Mastodon and lemmy already work somewhat well together.
Another big, lingering question is why Meta wants to do this in the first place. Lambert says Meta wants to give users more control over their posts and followers, with easier avenues to engage across platforms.
So will they be implementing a method to export this data in ways that could be imported to other platforms? Otherwise I don't see where federation fits in here all that much.
Extending reach isn't really the same as control imo.
Even Misskey is allowing exact audio object type.
Fediverse leaders? Like John Mastodon?
The article's paywalled, but presumably they're talking to active developers and people who run large instances.
I think it's doubtful that they actually are. If they were actually reaching out to any Mastodon "leaders," I think the leaders would be saying something about it and posting the communications.
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