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Jan Wildeboer 😷​:krulorange:​ @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
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Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted:

"“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,”

techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/
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Jan Wildeboer 😷​:krulorange:​ @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
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(And this will in turn enable more divide and conquer. Also part of the usual strategy to break a movement that is perceived as a possible threat by big organisations)
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Jan Wildeboer 😷​:krulorange:​ @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
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"It's not our evil plan, you people are already doing it" is the typical argument for Divide and Conquer. Unsurprisingly they bring that argument too:

"For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou @evan created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow."

(the irony being of course that Evan did this with standard ActivityPub, no changes needed)
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Jan Wildeboer 😷​:krulorange:​ @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
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I have raised the alarm bell already several years ago. Explained how the (at that time mostly dormant) Working Group at the W3C that is responsible for must be reinvigorated (that happened) and must became a loud defender of the (that didn't happen) or else we risk losing our ecosystem to fragmentation and infighting.
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
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@jwildeboer Hi, genuine question because I don't want to loudly splain people. Why are you specifically mentioning EEE and not privatization?
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