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I think the real implication of the system is that Reddit will also start banning you for down-voting posts too.

I’d reckon that managing a social media server is more involved than just using social media.

Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app.

Still don’t understand the logic of doing that.

It’s like saying,

“Our website is nigh unusable, please install our app instead. We pinky promise our app works”.

I fucking love the modlog on Lemmy.

Maybe we are witnessing a modern day version of the Business Plot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

My man, I am really curious where you get your news from.

While Threads is federated social circles and communities will have time to form. Thread users will by nature of having the support of a corporate juggernaut, be the lions share of users on the 'verse. When threads pull the plug, the Fedverse becomes a ghost town overnight and everyone not on Threads will be forced to migrate if they want to keep their social circles and communities intact.

Here is an example of a corpo dealing a blow to an open source project. The article covers an example of Microsoft and Google killing a competing open source project(s).

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Also here is a blog post about how Google killed the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) using extend, embrace, extinguish.