Looking at the T I'm convinced it is shopped.

It's silly, you're just thinking that somehow this time will be different.

it’s a tactic which relies on public trends, and we are not trend chasers, we are niche users.

Maybe you are, but most people aren't. With XMPP, I was similar, running my own server. I didn't jump to GTalk, but it still ended up with me shutting it down after I ended up to be the only person on my rooster.

WHY?

Would YOU really jump into Threads?

I don't, but I'm not the most people. I didn't jump with XMPP, but it still killed it for me.

Who is this person that you imagine that dropped Facebook and Twitter, but will jump right back as soon as they so much as see it again.

Such a person wouldn’t even be here to begin with, They would already be there.

I think you believe that everyone on fediverse is for the same reason as you are. Though I even doubt that, it's ironic, since you're here for 9 months, so you arrived here because of the API change. Don't you think if it was about principle you would be here much earlier than that? Add to it that you're still quite active on reddit, so you're lying to yourself and (at least from the outside) it looks like likely you would be one of those people.

You mention EEE and forgetting how it works in next paragraph.

• Embrace - facebook joins fediverse, existing users rejoice because now the user base was added with threads users
• Extend - facebook starts adding proprietary features to their product, many users start switching, because if they use threads.net they can have the new features AND still have access to the entire network
• Extinguish - facebook comes to conclusion that there's not many users on fediverse anymore, and being compatible only holds them up, so they disconnect, suddenly it gets very silent on fediverse, some people will jump to threads.net, because their friends are there, others will quit completely eventually making the network even emptier

This exact thing happened with Jabber/XMPP and it was also realization that vast majority of people are not loyal to some ideals and will switch to whatever works for them. Companies absolutely hate to have product they can't fully control.

Exactly, let's not repeat the history.

The so great (at the time) Google that was so friendly to users (at the time), destroyed Jabber/XMPP that way.

That could be it.

Well, everyone else says that Iran was involved. Though politically this helps Russia and China the most and they are also friendly towards that group.

Opera once wasn't as shady and had their own engine. It was quite snappy and low on resources.

It is a shame they didn't open source their engine when they switched to Chrome.

Someone leaked the source code, but of course no one serious will touch it.

And what's crazy, all of that was done AFTER presidency. One has to wonder how many things he got away during.

Goggle standard approach to it, is to integrate it so much with other components that it will be a lot of work to disable it, eventually making it impractical.

The right way would be for those clients to switch to gecko engine.

So basically boiling frog slowly.

LOL, sorry but if it is control over my computer vs youtube going away my reasponse is "bye bye, YouTube, don't let the door hit you on the way out"

Gecko (Firefox engine) already is worked on, why not contribute there instead of losing community? If anything why those browsers use engine that is controlled by a single company?