[jdenning]

Extinguish comes after extend -- eg, the goal is to make their client the preferred client for fediverse feeds for a large number of people by adding some kind of feature that they can prevent fediverse projects from also adding. Then extinguish.

(Edit) Examples:

- Google and RSS

- Slack and IRC

- Google (chrome) and web standards

- Apple (iMessage) and SMS

[qualeed]

What type of feature, and how would they prevent other projects?

I'm happy that there's a non-algorithmic feed in a Meta app. I think that's good for society.

I'm not focused on how this means Meta will be the fediverse overlord in the future, once they release some fediverse-killing feature. When that time comes, I'll be sure to rally against it.

[jdenning]

I'm quite sure they'll think of something. I don't think most people could have predicted that apple using an "ugly" color to represent non-iOS messages would have such a strong effect. But apple knew, and they were right.

Edit:

To be fair - "extinguish" is not entirely accurate..RSS, IRC, etc still exist - they're just ghost towns.

[irelephant]

RSS is far from a ghost town. Almost everything supports it still, its just not used by many people.

[jdenning]

It just occurred to me - post your fediverse content via thread and get preferred placement in the "neutral" feed. Boom.

[qualeed]

Okay, if they do that, I'll be sure to say "that sucks".

Until then, I'll be happy that millions of people can get non-algoirthmic feeds.