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Big tech will never love Lemmy because power belongs to the community.
thats ok, big tech cant really make money off this anyway, the proof is in the pudding, just let us run our space, go throw some crap on billboards and on our video streams. its insane we need brokers and gatekeepers for simple formatted text messages.
We can and will run it for ourselves. USENET for the modern day!
And with enough federated servers in the network they could never hope to have the reach of things like Lemmy and Mastodon. Server costs would be massively spread out instead of reliant on one corporation.
It's even possible to run it on old PC that wasn't used long ago, so everything will be good as long as community exist
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.