How exactly? Let’s say they follow the EEE strategy and eventually drop support for ActivityPub. Then it’s exactly the same as it is now. People bring up XMPP but nobody wanted to use XMPP the majority of people were using Google Talk or Facebook Messenger. By using the Fediverse you are already explicitly choosing not to use Facebook or X or Reddit. The large social media companies already have larger user bases and more content and if people here wanted that they’d leave already.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you realise how hypocritical this is? Using the fediverse is effectively using XMPP in this analogy.
Just compare the 100 million users of Threads vs the 1.5 MAU of the fediverse.
Threads is the corporate-backed proprietary service (Google talk) and the fediverse is the small network of federated servers hosted mainly by volunteers (XMPP).
By using XMPP you were explicitly not choosing Google Talk or Facebook Messenger. How is this any different?
XMPP users said the same about XMPP. And it was true, to a certain extent. The federated XMPP network is alive to this day, I’m in a few chat rooms and have a few contacts there.
nave@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Thats my point effectively nothing changes if Facebook drops ActivityPub.
Aren’t you agreeing with me here? All I’m saying is that whatever happens the fediverse will continue existing in its fairly niche core we of the internet.