06-29-2023, 01:44 AM
(06-26-2023, 03:53 AM)brilokuloj Wrote: This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
Meta/Facebook is inviting Fediverse admins under NDA for “meetings”
yesterday i saw an actually harrowing (unsourced mind you) mstdn post in relation to all of this and its been on my mind all day long:
https://merveilles.town/@zens/110615113004365373
Quote:someone just used React.js as an example of facebook “playing nice” and well.. i was able to interact with the react engineers on twitter years ago. they were quite shockingly open with the fact they intended react to be an embrace extend extinguish strategy aimed at the web as a whole, in tandem with react native.
the long term vision was to have react native, painting directly to something like webgl or webgpu, then get rid of the rest of the web platform. super surprised they admitted it.
it sounds VERY ambitious but the way i frowned after reading this. like, thinking about every single react-based large app (reddit. twitter. paypal. facebook. pinterest. adobe. discord.) and imagining what would happen if all of them disappeared from the web overnight and became landing pages that told you to go download their app. i wonder if some people would genuinely stop using web browsers as a result.