Everyone gives Meta and Twitter flack for the hellscape that is social media.
But you know who else deserves flack? Google.
They killed RSS so that everyone would use Google+ for news. Instead, everyone used Facebook and Twiter.
@atomicpoet
I don't really think that's something that could be put on Google though. The migration off RSS to Facebook and Twitter had started before Google killed its Reader.
@atomicpoet
Actually, if anything, one could argue that G+ was the failed attempt of Google to keep up with the competition. Ironically, today if they wanted to do that, they could try help the #Fediverse grow, just to subtract ad revenue from the competition.
@oblomov @atomicpoet I'm actually quite surprised they're not doing that already.
Their competitors are investing pretty hard in openstreetmaps to lower the value of Google Maps.
I think the investment in openstreetmaps is overall quite good for the project itself.
I guess Google might be better off paying some developers to work for the fediverse to improve the systems and so on rather than opening their own instance.
They won't be making money off off it, but if that helps taking down the user base of Twitter, that will make them more prominent among the other tech companies.
