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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:01:11 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   @Azure @arcade @rysiek but why?

   What value is there to Google to kill RSS?

   Why spend years and millions of dollars building and running Reader, just to destroy RSS?

   This is a dumb conspiracy theory. You've got the direction of causation reversed.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:07:19 JST pettter

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek Similarly: you don't need evil, intentionally worker-exploitative capitalists for the _system of capitalism_ to necessarily lead to exploitation of workers by capitalists. @evan @Azure @arcade

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:07:20 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @evan it didn't have to be done on purpose, it didn't have to be pre-planned. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy.

     the end result was similar. Users got sucked into Google's ecosystem, and an open protocol suffered for it greatly.

     The point of all this is that harm doesn't have to be done intentionally, doesn't have to be pre-pondered and pre-planned, to be harm nonetheless.

     Was the RSS thing pre-planned? I doubt it. Did it do harm to RSS? Yes. yes it did.

     @Azure @arcade

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:14:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek actually, to be an embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy, it has to be a strategy.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:19:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek I'm sorry you're so worried!

     You barged into a thread about whether embrace, extend and extinguish ever worked. I said it didn't, and you gave a bunch of examples that weren't EEE.

     When I said you should check the actual topic of conversation, you said you were well aware of the definition, which you clearly weren't!

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:19:24 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @evan now you're with semantics. I am worried about how this will affect fedi, you are splitting hairs about whether this will come as a "strategy" or just Zuckerberg having a bad day.