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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 07:55:09 JST Chris Trottier

   How will the #Fediverse break #Meta’s monopoly on social media?
   
   Same way the IESA broke IBM’s monopoly on PCs.
   
   Same way HTML5 broke Adobe’s monopoly with Flash.
   
   Same way open Internet standards broke Microsoft’s monopoly with Internet Explorer.
   
   Open standards and protocols have a habit of breaking monopolies.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 07:59:59 JST Chris Trottier

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     Funny enough, I once spoke to a Meta exec who told me that their goal is to build the killer app that kills Facebook.
     
     Why? Because they know all social media apps have a shelf life.
     
     Even if you’re a multi-billion dollar Internet company, success can be very fleeting.
     
     Just ask Yahoo, AOL, and MySpace.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 08:56:33 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Brian David

     @bcdavid@hachyderm.io You’re putting the cart before the horse. Apple was able to abandon Flash because of HTML5.

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     Brian David (bcdavid@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-May-2023 08:56:39 JST Brian David

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     @atomicpoet I love HTML 5 and web technologies in general, but it was very much Apple that destroyed Flash by refusing to support it in iOS.