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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (9 children)

yeah, interoperability should work to encourage development

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I'm sorry to break it to you, but look at how much E-Mail, the biggest open Standard has developed.

    Without a central Authority behind it, Developement doesn't work.

    Heck, even with a central authority it's difficult. Just look how many Businesses still use Java 8.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Speaking of email, spam becomes an inevitable problem. Anyone in theory can spin up a federated bot instance to spam the hell out of everyone.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    XMPP actually started becoming better fast after those authorities (like Google) dropped it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    It sounds paradoxical, but that's exactly what i meant.

    There were multiple authorities with different ideas which blocked developement. As soon as there was only one Authority left, developement sped up rapidly.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sorry, but no, that's not how it happened.

    There were multiple authorities with different ideas which blocked developement.

    Google didn't block anything, just rolled out XEPs which its client supported and others sometimes did, sometimes didn't, and didn't really want to, because, first, around 2007 the expected requirements to an IM were different, so nobody felt pressed, second, they didn't discuss it with anyone.

    So, for example, Jingle (VoIP) support was more like a toy - a few clients had it, but disabled by default and nobody cared to test it much.

    As soon as there was only one Authority left, developement sped up rapidly.

    Eh, and which would that be? What I see is exactly how useful XEPs were introduced by different people, and sometimes even replaced old XEPs for the same purpose, organically, with no authority involved.

    By market forces, one could say.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Interesting how the companies mentioned in the article came up with DKIM and others, a Think of the Children™ argument but for spam, only to consolidate their own services as monopolies and walling-out anyone not using @them.

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