Definition: A single, abusive entity or a group of abusive entities in the Fediverse has gained so much influence, that they can pull EEE (embrace, extend and extinguish The attack will look like t…
  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
    571·
    2 years ago

    But while that’s a very lucky thing to have, the issue is that we depend on the owner of Mastodon to not sell the company to a billionaire.

    We don’t depend on that. Buying Mastodon would get them the branding but not Mastodon itself. It’s all GPL/AGPL and would be forked immediately if sold. The buyer would have no control over it.

    Oracle may have owned OpenOffice but it didn’t matter. Everyone uses LibreOffice now. Same shit.

  • TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.caEnglish
    192·
    2 years ago

    Good writeup, but I don’t see the Fediverse as a single entity–if a single instance gets to 51%, and even 25% of the other instances fork and continue federating among themselves, then those 25% would function just as well, and likely maintain users with shared interests (i.e. how Lemmy is still interesting despite being much smaller than Reddit)

  • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    In my opinion in internet only thing that really matters is to preserve information of all kinds, for example this article https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/14/23792586/classic-game-preservation-video-game-history-foundation-esa and this is not only video games, YouTube too, Reddit too, stack overflow too, and many many many more, what hurts the most is that enormous amount of information may disappear at any moment, it feels like burning of library of Alexandria, so much of history is just going poof and this is when we have such technologies as modern filesystems supporting block based dedication and transparent compression and such cheap giant vessels of info, for example 20tb hdd cost around 350usd while just 10 years ago it would cost few thousands, i think billionaires are way too short sighted to not trying to really preserve and recover all the info possible

    • jantin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Why think they don’t? Amazon web service is, well, Amazon, so it’s like a Bezos-funded library - if he or other execs wish so they can preserve whatever they wish for as long as they can afford electricity and maintenance. The same goes with google or facebook … the real question is what will be chosen for preservation when inevitably the reaper comes for these corps in their current form.