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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Inductor@feddit.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The article is 100% revisionist history written backwards to justify a knee-jerk conclusion and XMPP is indeed not dead. Or not any deader than anybody else that got washed away by WhatsApp winning the messaging wars over the 2010s.

Importantly, the article fails to establish how the current XMPP usage numbers show it's "dead" compared to back in the Google Talk days. Especially in the context of the entirely changed langscape of text messaging. So the very premise is weak from the get-go.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it does acknowledge that it still exists and has a solid community at the very bottom.

I do excuse it, it's an article from an insider with an axe to grind that is bummed out that the Google integration didn't make them win the IM wars and that Google was bad at supporting a secondary app, as they do. That's legit.

But as a breakdown for a mallicious plan from Meta to "EEE" ActivityPub... well, it's not even pretending to be that.