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

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This is a great read for anyone curious about what happens when a greedy platform that grows at all costs "helps" an open platform.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's weird to hear someone say "Google Chat killed Messenger apps" when it is so very clear that cell phones did that all on their own.

    I respect this person's passion, but his history is slanted, to say the very least.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    That era was still too early for widespread self-hosting and people were barely discovering all that internet tech. So what Jabber/XMPP offered was still neither appealing nor user-friendly enough.

    Moreover, it was Whatsapp that fixed your mobile number as your username that ruined Jabber's momentum, not Google. Google Talk or Chat had never reached a notable market share.

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