I understand and obviously agree or else I wouldn’t be vaguely gestures to everyone around him
But let’s not live in fantasy land. Capitalism rules the internet and like it’s old predecessor Feudalism there’s one rule. Bigger Army (bank account) diplomacy. None of the other rules matter if you’re big enough to write them. Nobody will willingly give up their level of control of the internet and everyone who takes it will do so with the objective of replacing them not dethroning
they successfully killed xmpp, google seems hellbent on hijacking the internet with their drm thing, meta wants to federate like they did when they killed xmpp…
i dunno if you are right but they will definetly put up a fight.
I understand and obviously agree or else I wouldn’t be vaguely gestures to everyone around him
But let’s not live in fantasy land. Capitalism rules the internet and like it’s old predecessor Feudalism there’s one rule. Bigger Army (bank account) diplomacy. None of the other rules matter if you’re big enough to write them. Nobody will willingly give up their level of control of the internet and everyone who takes it will do so with the objective of replacing them not dethroning
Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I’m not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives
they successfully killed xmpp, google seems hellbent on hijacking the internet with their drm thing, meta wants to federate like they did when they killed xmpp…
i dunno if you are right but they will definetly put up a fight.
I assume if Lemmy ever got big enough to be an actual threat, the big guys would do something about it. I’m not sure what though, but something.