How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

Niello@kbin.social to Technology@beehaw.org – 192 points – How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
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A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.

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Yes I read that and explained why I don't think its relevant. Facebook can't slow down progress on the fediverse because:

  1. progress is already slow. The fediverse has been in development for 15 years and still is a clunky, niche network and likely will always be less polished than large corporate networks.
  2. Every developer on the fediverse is aware of the EEE playbook and next to none of them will try to remain compatible with any corporate extensions.
  1. What do you mean? Progress is already slow so any additional slow down will seriously harm the fediverse precisely because of the limited resources IMHO.
  2. I'm not quite as optimistic as you but yeah, I don't think it will be easy for Facebook and if they misjudge it they will end up making a competitor stronger by bringing more attention to it.

But #1 is predicated on #2. If developers are aware of the risk of EEE, then they won't try to remain compatible with Meta extensions, which means development of the open AP ecosystem will continue at the same pace.

Okay, sure. Still a bit skeptical about point 2 but we will see.