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[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We just don't want history repeating itself like what happened with xmpp. Do you really think facebook of all companies is joining the fediverse with good intentions? Do you really think they're not trying to monopolize this?

[–] MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I would like to point out that xmpp still exists. Google Talk does not. WhatsApp killed xmpp, not Google

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

XMPP still exists - and I use it for chatting with one person. Nobody I know uses it. Techies I know use IRC and, more recently, Matrix. Or discord, disappointingly enough.

And I mention techies because the rest of the world is just happy with WhatsApp/Messenger/Slack et al.

What I'm getting at is that XMPP feels pretty dead in my experience. But who knows, maybe it would be in this same position regardless of Google like you allude to.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where did they even mention Google in their comment?

[–] MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Because every time this argument starts, someone mentions how they don't want the fediverse to go down the xmpp path, and the argument has its origin in this article

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

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

I never mentioned google. And sure, xmpp exists but it's dead and would be much better off if not for big tech giants

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 10 months ago

Last I checked, the people using XMPP are still running happily using servers and clients.

All 17 of them.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

I gotta ask.. were you around and actively using xmpp around that time?

Because I was. And xmpp struggling had nothing to do with Google