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Comment by jdenning | Hacker News Reader

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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