We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.
That’s totally fine, but I remember when google users could communicate with XMPP. They captured all the users with better UI, etc, then closed it off.
Classic EEE. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
I admit I didn’t pay attention in the last when big tech would do this.
This is…hmm. I hadn’t even thought of this.