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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off?

It was slowly gaining a user base. It was a good alternative to MSN Messenger and other big corp messaging protocols (Yahoo Talk or whatever it was called).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it's the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That is true. Discord - gaming, Messenger - FB. Google just couldn't tie it with any social network, so it flopped... and their numerous attempts at creating one.