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• aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure if federating will help meta so much as it will definitely (most probably) hurt the lemmy/mastodon network.

  Here’s a similar case that happened before, with the XMPP protocol being coopted by google but eventually killing it in favor of their own proprietary solution:

  ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…

  Big tech isn’t on our side, and we have to handle outside corporate influence with heavy skepticism.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    XMPP still exists and doesn’t have any fewer users than before Google adopted it.

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