https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=emJsHKINn-s

significant economic harm to our company

Oh! I have a solution! Make it a local API you fucking goofs.

If I recall correctly, the whole suite was sold to a company that has a history of acquiring existing tools just to park them in maintenance mode and fill them with ads.

Also those type of blog posts tend to rub people the wrong way when they are written by the creator. Apparently other people see them as a call-out post more that something informative.

I’m not betting on the 51%, but it’s still on the table. I’m more convinced they’ll start throwing garbage over the protocol and uninformed users will migrate to instances that support that garbage because of peer pressure, features, or just wanting to get rid of the encoded messages. It’ll turn into the green chat bubble argument with some people feeling their instance is superior in the way it deals with it.

Eh, they could still do the scummy shit Apple and Google were doing to each other with SMS. Start encoding “extra features” in the standard messages and pushing that garbage out to the rest of the network. Or hit it with a 51% attack and scramble everything that can’t defederate fast enough. Still problematic.