• dsemy@vlemmy.net
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    Linux is a very unique project in many ways, so I don’t think it’s the best example.

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      1 year ago

      There’s Wikipedia as another example.

      We shouldn’t let them make us act like we’ve already lost.

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        1 year ago

        Wikipedia is also a bad example though…

        ActivityPub, as a protocol, is particularly vulnerable to EEE, since a corporation can create their own implementation and still talk to existing instances - allowing them to gradually extend the protocol, without forcing a mass migration to their service from the get go.

        With Wikipedia, for example, they would basically have to create a competing site, and users of Wikipedia will not see any content from that site unless they actively go to it.

        Edit: BTW, I don’t see this as admitting defeat; if anything, these migrations from service to service over time show that the corporations never win in the long run.

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          With Wikipedia, for example, they would basically have to create a competing site, and users of Wikipedia will not see any content from that site unless they actively go to it.

          So… Wikia, aka Fandom?

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            Fandom and Wikipedia are both wikis, but they serve a different purpose, they don’t really compete with each other AFAIK.