With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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    1 year ago

    So Google used Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” strategy and looks like Facebook is aiming to use ut as well

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      To be fair, Microsoft didn’t invent this, they only showed that it could be implemented in the tech industry. To some extent, basically every big tech company does this now.

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      These days, we just call it “the stages of enshitification”. And basically every large tech company is doing something like that

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        “Enshitification is when our preferred open social web standard gets adopted by a major corporation.”

        Wat.