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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 24 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

this is why the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse: they'll destroy it

great article, if you're here scrolling through the comments I urge you to stop and actually read the article, it's worth your time I promise

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Your comment made me read it. You're right. I remeber the XMPP gchat days but I was too young to understand or care what XMPP was. I just remember the slick we ui being mind blowing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse

    How are they not allowed? How is it checked, how prevented?

    As I see it, they can freely use the code, freely set up instances, freely create user accounts on their own or other instances, with 'independent' users, employees or bots.

    The only thing stopping them is the current fediverse's insignificance. We're just not tasty enough, yet. But if we become, how could we disallow them from joining?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    how could we disallow them from joining?

    easy, identify them, never allow them to federate, block them in your firewall. Their instances won't be anonymous

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, but you can only do that if they already joined the fediverse. I replied to "the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse". It's also questionable if everyone will block them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    you know what I meant. Block them with extreme prejudice when they're identified

    as for your second point, I assume there will be considerable pressure on all instances to follow suit or be defederated themselves. Don't let their taint spread

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