Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

• drkt@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yeah it works so I guess by that metric it’s not dead

  Of course, silly me

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i use it. conversations is a p good android app and it’s in the f-droid repo. disroot runs an xmpp service and if you’re cool, they’ll give you an account.

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  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, what do you really mean?

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    • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not the person you asked, but I’ve heard an argument that goes like this: Evil Company will “embrace” something, then “extend” it in a way that only works with Evil Company’s product, then “extinguish” that thing by making Evil Company’s approach incompatible with it. A discussion is provided here: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…

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      • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, but I don’t know if that really applies to XMPP. Google turned on XMPP federation for seven years and then turned it off. The article basically admits that it’s counterfactual to say that XMPP would have wider adoption or be more developed today if Google never did that.

        I think a more significant concern would be if Meta hires away Fediverse developers, but that is separate from them just turning on federation.

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