Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
amki@feddit.de 1 year agoNo. There was nothing to extend and extinguish with XMPP. It was a dead on arrival protocol that nobody ever used seriously. I’ve been to the internet at that time and what people actually used was: AIM, ICQ, MSN and possibly even Yahoo!.
It was exactly the other way around. Nobody ever used XMPP, then Google opened federation on their first chat and suddenly someone was actually reachable via XMPP but when Google noticed that it only imports problems with nothing to gain from the XMPP network they just shut it off.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Some governments I think and the BBC are already using mastodon, and honestly, those big organisations used things like tweetdeck before instead of mainstream twitter apps. I can feasibly see big organisations like governments, politicians and media sites not wanting to use threads, and instead using their own instances to interact with threads users.