Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool

Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was.

  In fact, for about 3 weeks, Facebook and gtalk could exchange message seamlessly and easily over their fed gateway and xmpp.

  Seeing a problem with this, FB changed. With it being at least 4.5 weeks since the last complete redesign incompatible with the old, Google also changed to something that sucked.

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  • toastal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Since we are on a decentralized platform & many of us care about federation, do yourself a service & read this little history lesson: How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (archived)

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• toastal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is a standard, starting at RFC 6120. Everyone can use it today. 😃

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  • Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, but not open like the e-mail.

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    • toastal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not open? Wat

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      • Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Technically, whatsapp, telegram, signal, even the chat of some online games are XMPP, but the servers are closed to be able to interact with other ones so they can become a monopoly…

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