I always find these arguments are almost in bad faith. Sure there are always alternatives, but that’s like saying the alternative to driving to work is walking. It works, but only so far as it is practical. I am so glad I found Lemmy and fortunately the community has been forced here by Reddit, but how many posts were on this platform 2 days ago, how many will be here in a week? I am hopeful this will last, but platforms are only as powerful as their users, and the general public tends to congregate in the largest, easiest to use location.
There is a great site called https://alternativeto.net where you can search for open source software that you could use instead of a proprietary one. For exampe Photoshop -> Gimp
I know there arent perfect alternatives for everything but i found a few cool ones for myself that i use every day now.
Big tech will never love Lemmy because power belongs to the community.
Be careful with that thinking. That way can lead to complacency. Big tech loves embrace, extend, extinguish
I could see a corp like Microsoft or Google or someone else seeing long term value in federated services. They could create a service utilizing the technology and spread it to their user base. Slowly add in some special sauce to their own version of it to attract more people to their part of it. Then break compatibility with everything else to stop someone from stealing users back.
I think Meta is doing something with ActivityPub
Looks like they smell blood in the water with Twitter’s downward spiral.
That’s what you have to look out for. They will exploit anything they can get their hands on if they think there is money to be made.
How exactly is Meta’s new platform going to work? It’s still confusing me a bit.
once enough people are in they defederate from everything and then immediately start enshittifying until it becomes yet another big tech platform
They probably won’t even have to defederate. Become big enough that you can dictate the standards of federation in a way that profits you.
