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🌐 Curious about the fediverse and the open social web? (flipboard.social)

submitted 1 month ago by Flipboard@flipboard.social to c/fediverse@fedia.io

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🌐 Curious about the fediverse and the open social web?

In this week's Community tab, we're spotlighting developers, journalists and experts who will help you learn how the fediverse is shaping a more open and connected internet, and what this means for the rest of us.

@evan@cosocial.ca @Gargron@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @quillmatiq@mastodon.social
@Sarahp@mastodon.social

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[–] cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Flipboard@flipboard.social @evan@cosocial.ca @Gargron@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @Sarahp@mastodon.social So the corps have officially started the "Embrace" stage and are planning the "Extend" one. Good to know at least this time is being done in the open.

[–] evan@cosocial.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@cygnathreadbare @Flipboard @Gargron @mmasnick @quillmatiq @Sarahp This comes up so often. I wonder if there is any good historical documentation for the strategy of dealing with "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" ...? I think the famous example of Microsoft's embrace of the web, and extension via ActiveX and other proprietary features, was headed off by vigorous defense of open standards by @tantek.com , Molly Holschlag, others in the Web Standards group. https://www.webstandards.org/

[–] evan@cosocial.ca 1 points 1 month ago

@cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza @Flipboard@flipboard.social @Gargron@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @Sarahp@mastodon.social @tantek.com@tantek.com Probably having a very usable Firefox helped out with that a lot too.

I don't know if it would have made sense to prevent Microsoft from "embracing" the Web; we would have lost a lot of people and utility to the whole ecosystem.