This didn't happen. In fact Google was the one who fell behind development when the protocol moved on and deprecated unencrypted connections for example. People just don't make it a priority to use XMPP instead of the walled gardens they are using now.
kpw
joined 2 years ago
Then it must have gotten a lot better in the meantime then. I discovered it ~2020 while searching for alternatives to WhatsApp and realizing that other walled gardens cannot be the answer since they have the same problem as WhatsApp. I think we should revive the idea of an universal internet standard for instant messaging.
Freedom isn’t letting everything be or letting anyone do anything.
I only talked about communicating with Threads users not "anything".
When meta kills off 99% of Lemmy servers
Why should Meta be able to do this?
XMPP works great, you just have to use it. It doesn't invalidate anything.
Why? It works great for me and my contacts. I use it for all my personal messaging.
XMPP works great on mobile devices today. Google could have easily developed and published such extensions themselves.
It's your freedom as an admin to block them, but indeed the cost is the freedom of your users to communicate with people on Threads. As a user I would prefer an instance that doesn't restrict my communications in that way.
This. I don't care what Google or Meta do, I will never use their services.
made the service much slower for people not on their server
I call bullshit. People not using Google servers were unaffected. The problem is people using walled gardens instead of making XMPP compatibility a requirement.
You could seed the Torrents by the internet archive.