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This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

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[–] realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

@jherazob The #Meta situation isn't comparable to the #XMPP situation though

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Correct, it's worse, you can very much argue that Google had good faith intentions, you cannot even pretend that Facebook does while keeping a straight face

[–] realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

@jherazob I care more about the effects than intent in this case.

#Meta's #Threads / #Barcelona / #Project92 doesn't have the ability to do anything actually negative to the #Fediverse except potentially overload small instances with a flood of traffic.

I don't get the fearmongering; lots of talk about "breaking the #Fediverse" coming from people who aren't really doing a good job of articulating how exactly a new #Fediverse software--because that's all this is at the end of the day--will break an entire network of software that already works with each other.

[–] da_g@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

You woke up and decided to speak facts, damn

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