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[–] emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (30 children)

I think among other issues would be the Gmail-ification and iMessage-ification of the fediverse. What I mean by that is open standards like email are dominated today by many people using Gmail accounts as it is popular, “free”, and comes with a ton of features. Then google started “walling off their garden” by adding features that only work between gmail accounts. Similarly, apple also took the open standard SMS and started adding on features only available between other iPhones.

What we might see is some of the coolest features the fediverse has ever seen, but it will come at the cost of most users ignoring or dealing less with "irrelevant" things not on meta ran instances.

Hope we can resist such a change, but that is what I am concerned about.

[–] shipp@mastodon.coffee 9 points 1 year ago (26 children)

@emi @Helix those standards don't really change though. We have the power over ActivityPub. Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?

[–] Helix@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

We have the power over ActivityPub

Who is 'we'? And who doesn't say that there's something on top of activitypub?

Plus, if they do create cool features, why would we not also add them?

Because we don't have multiple thousands of paid developers.

[–] shipp@mastodon.coffee 14 points 1 year ago

@Helix we have a legion of trans coders in pink striped programmer socks. They can do anything!

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