How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

  • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    102·
    7 months ago

    Software Engineers just reinvent the wheel again and again as everyone loves a green field. While somewhat true, this is also a dumb take. Not everyone working at Slack/Discord/etc can work on IRC. They’re making competing businesses, not just wanting to re-solve the same problem but wanting to do it with a new code base.

    • paf0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      7 months ago

      I suppose that applies more to XMPP, but not everything has to be a business, and you don’t have to be an ass about it.

      • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        7 months ago

        You’re the one being an ass about it, saying developers always want a greenfield project. Tons of people contribute where they can, but we still need a job. So if somebody wants to make a business making a new chat client so they can make enough money to feed their family, well, that’s the capitalistic hellhole we’ve found ourselves in.