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Re: "how to kill decentralized networks (by ploum)"
I am a big fan of xmpp too. I remember when Google Talk would work with other xmpp domains. I never thought about this strategy. Although I don't use the fedeverse much... except to watch videos on peertube, it will be interesting to see what transpires between meta and the fediverse. I also agree that the less we have anything to do with the greedy monopolies which are only interested in their own profit, the better off we will be.
May 28 · 3 months ago
🐙 norayr [OP] · May 28 at 09:33:
i was commenting that back then, when google had xmpp (i thought it was xmpp since the beginning, i didn't know it was a compatibility layer), it was also because their slogan was 'dont be evil'. then eric schmidt came and changed it to 'do the right thing'. i think he says in his book 'how google works' that he was surprised that during the corporate meeting someone would oppose a decition which would bring money because it doesnt correspond to not being evil slogan. and i think since they do the right thing, they decided xmpp is not their thing.
Found Kevs post about Facebook/Meta contact talked about in the article.
— https://hub.fosstodon.org/facebook-fosstodon-fedi
☕️ tenno-seremel · May 29 at 07:45:
XMPP is better than ever, TBH. I use it every day since the days of dinosaurs.
— ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.gmi
how to kill decentralized networks (by ploum) — i just read this article, very interesting. i never thought meta's involvement with fediverse could be this dangerous. and i never knew this details about google and xmpp.