How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
At Microsoft, this strategy was called "embrace, extend, extinguish", but it's important to realize that it isn't a practice that's exclusive to Microsoft.
It's frustrating how many non-joiners are completely turned off by the part where you hunt for an instance to join. They act like it's super confusing and scary (when in fact it's 'super easy, barely an inconvenience').
Meanwhile these same people will scour the internet looking for a recipe or bootleg movie or whatever.
It's really frustrating when you remember what a huge PITA it is to get your account going on reddit. Sure, the first part is easy enough, it's just registering on the site. But then you find you can't do jack shit because you don't have enough karma and every sub you visit has 10,000 arbitrary byzantine rules to deal with because the mods got picked on in high school.
Lemmy is actually EASIER than reddit. But here we are.
How many times is this going to get posted? We're on the fourth or fifth repost since it was written. The last post was just 12 hours ago on this community and there's still active discussion.
So please correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t defederation two ways, like if my instance (lemm.ee) defederates from threads, doesn’t threads not see any lemmy posts anymore.
Assuming im not horribly wrong (and even if I am at least we won’t be able to interact with threads users) what’s the problem if we don’t see content.
And don’t get me wrong I’m 100% against threads federating and I feel like I’m missing something but what’s the problem when defederation is a tool?
As far as I understand, this isn't quite right (unless it's changed recently).
If A defeds B, then A no longer sends new posts to B, accepts comments or posts from B users, or receives new posts from B. Any comments from B users on A's old posts (made before defederation) are no longer acknowledged by A.
I think A users can still interact with B's posts, but then I haven't seen any beehaw users in forever. So perhaps not?
C can obviously still interact with both A and B posts normally. On posts from C, both A and B users can still interact.
So, in short defederation creates a hard wall preventing interaction between A and B. The only way A and B users can interact is on C.
It's unfortunate as beehaw would have benefitted from a uni-directional defederation (i.e. preventing .world users from posting on beehaw, but not preventing .beehaw users from posting on .world. Unfortunately, it's both.)
I don't understand how Google's shit with XMPP killed XMPP. XMPP is still a thing, and nobody was beholden to be consistent with whatever Google was doing behind closed doors with it.