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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The X in Xmpp is for extensible. I find issue that a protocol that is supposed to be extensible was killed by being extended.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm gonna throw this out there:

If Meta is going to join the fediverse (or implement something with activitypub) there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop them.

It's an open protocol. They can use it.

The only thing we can do is force them to follow the AGPL and/or fork the code if they get crazy with change requests.