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Indeed. The real story is federated applications undermine their search monopoly.
by linuxftw 6y ago
Indeed. The real story is federated applications undermine their search monopoly.
- dageshi 6y agoI really doubt google cares about federated applications at all. I suspect they're just trying to avoid a potential future shitstorm where they're accused of facilitating something nasty because they "approved" apps to be on the play store.
- linuxftw 6y agoNo, as others have said, you'd have to apply the same reasoning to a web browser. Google dominates the web search, so there's no need to prevent other browsers because it all drives Google's revenue anyway. Any app that allows you to break out of the garden is banned.
- dageshi 6y agoViewed through the lens of "what will cause the most bad publicity" a browser is understood by 90% of the population. The "fediverse" isn't. It can be spun to cause damage in the way a browser cannot. Google don't care about the federated stuff because it's not big enough to bother them, in fact it probably siphons all the crap they'd rather not index off to a place they no longer have to worry about. They care about bad publicity and being seen to implicitly support "bad" things via their app store.
- linuxftw 6y ago> Google don't care about the federated stuff because it's not big enough to bother them, It seems their using their position to ensure this remains true.
- icebraining 6y agoSeems the opposite to me: most of the Fediverse is web accessible, where Google Search can crawl it. Google's nemesis are closed platforms owned by other companies (like Facebook).