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I am a fediverse enthusiast and I am excited for Threads federating. I hope it incentivises Tumblr to federate also and then we actually finally have proper choice.
I see you're not familiar with EEE. This is a classic move by enterprise to kill an open competitor.
I am. How could they kill the fediverse? If they tried to kill it, it would only return to how things was. Chances are tumblr could join in and then they couldn't easily extinguish it.
Ever heard of XMPP?
If a single party participating in an open standard is large enough, they can go off the track, and then kill off interoperability.
The XMPP history going around Lemmy lately is kind of exaggerated.
It's blatantly wrong. Google extended XMPP for their own purposes and when participating with XMPP no longer suited them, they left. The collapse of the "XMPP userbase" is a misnomer - those users were never XMPP users. They were Google Chat users. When Google left, XMPP was in the same state it was in before Google got on board. It returned to its status as a niche protocol for a service that, as @effingjoe@kbin.social points out, people didn't really want anymore.
I completely agree with this take!
So is this suggesting we need more instances?
I feel like people read a comment that linked XMPP with EEE and keep parroting it while not understanding it.
XMPP still exists, but people largely don't want "Instant Messaging" anymore. They don't want to care about whether the person is online before they can send a message.
Google dropping support for XMPP didn't do that, it's what caused them to drop it. They moved on to what people wanted: asynchronous messaging.
This concern about the now overused "EEE" stuff is blown away out of proportion.
But this isn't a single party. Mastodon and Lemmy and Kbin are well established
They're well-established now. A behemoth like Meta entering upends everything. Especially if they gain traction over the next year.