How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

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.

  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off?

    It was slowly gaining a user base. It was a good alternative to MSN Messenger and other big corp messaging protocols (Yahoo Talk or whatever it was called).

    • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        That is true. Discord - gaming, Messenger - FB. Google just couldn’t tie it with any social network, so it flopped… and their numerous attempts at creating one.