• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    4 months ago

    Maybe. Or this will play out like Slack and IRC.

    Initially, Slack integrated with IRC. Which was great! It meant I could use xchat to talk with folks, and could set up simple bots using standard IRC tools.

    And then Slack killed that feature…but it absolutely didn’t kill IRC, because die hard IRC users never cared about Slack in the first place.

    My prediction is it’ll be the same — what sort of people will be attracted to Threads vs a smaller “proper” instance? Probably the sort of people who would never consider a federated platform in the first place.

    Just speculation and I could certainly be wrong…

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      4 months ago

      we just need to make sure that we don’t rely on their instance(s) too heavily so we only have minimal losses when they eventually do drop support.

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      4 months ago

      How long ago did those things happen, and what makes you think the uber wealthy capitalist owner-class hasn’t learned from their past “shortcomings”?

      Why would multi-billion dollar corporations allow things like that to happen to them again?

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        4 months ago

        Slack killed IRC integration mid 2018.

        What exactly did Slack “allow” though? The continued existence of an ancient protocol with a niche but dedicated following of predominantly “old school” tech people?