Hey there, I found on Stacker News a piece of writing regarding Instagram's Threads. It draws parallels to how Google (all but) killed an instant message standard (called XMPP) by becoming interoperable with it, and suggests that this is perhaps what Zuckerberg is doing.
Step 1. Become interoperable with open network (but OVERWHELMINGLY most users use Big Tech version.)
Step 2. Make it suck for people using non-Big Tech version. Slowly fall out of interoperability.
Step 3. Cut off interoperability.
Anyway, it's a good read/theory. Thinking adversarially has paid off for us as Bitcoiners, so it's something to watch out for over here at Nostr too. Being wayyyy smaller than the Fediverse, we are even more vulnerable to this.
It is also a "Twitter killer" the fact that they released it before having ANY ActivityPub interoperability shows they would rather take the opportunity to kick Twitter when they are down (ratelimiting) than actually be decentralized. However, it has a stricter moderation policy than Twitter.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
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