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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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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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[โ€“] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[โ€“] _sigma@kbin.social 8 points 1 year 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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