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Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.

Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there's even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?

I don't have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I'd post myself.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

What Threads is doing is an old strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish.

Google did the same thing with XMPP. When it joined it was welcomed then they introduced incompatible features to encourage existing users to switch to their GTalk. Eventually they "accidentally" broke communication so anyone on XMPP couldn't talk with users on GTalk and effectively killed XMPP.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'm confused, I didn't mention Threads. I think we actually did a good job of keeping Threads out and they already kinda gave up on ActivityPub

    Threadiverse = Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed, it's a term older than Meta's Threads

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