▲ 885 ▼ Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org) submitted 3 years ago by giallo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 395 comments fedilink hide all child comments The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
[–] Thelaea@feddit.nl 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html Someone else just posted this explanation. TLDR is essentially, one of these giant corporations can destroy a network by joining and then later walling off their own part of it. And it's been done before. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bloonface@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I have read that and been linked that multiple times. I responded to it here: https://finecity.social/notes/9gcoisoofl tl;dr: Facebook and Google didn't "destroy" XMPP. XMPP was used by basically nobody before Facebook and Google picked it up, and after they dropped it again XMPP is still used by basically nobody. Its spec also doesn't include support for features that consumers expect to have in messaging software, which is part of why nobody uses it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bloonface@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I have read that and been linked that multiple times. I responded to it here: https://finecity.social/notes/9gcoisoofl tl;dr: Facebook and Google didn't "destroy" XMPP. XMPP was used by basically nobody before Facebook and Google picked it up, and after they dropped it again XMPP is still used by basically nobody. Its spec also doesn't include support for features that consumers expect to have in messaging software, which is part of why nobody uses it. permalink fedilink source parent