amki
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- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
This is a core problem of distributed systems though. Signal even cites this as their reason to not federate with anyone.
Once you get decentralization going you need everyone to stay kind of up to date or stuff will just not work.
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
It is not. Discord’s protocol has been tailormade to suit Discord and the developers will not give a single thought about keeping it stable because only the Discord server&client are meant to use it.
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
An XMPP developer would likely have been delusional about the protocol he himself developed. But at the time I can assure you XMPP was completely irrelevant. AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo! and maybe IRC were the tools of the day back then.
Because of actual competition (which XMPP had absolutely no part in) multi protocol messengers had their golden age then.
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
No.
- I want to send messages to people who are not currently online (having a server stay online for you is a desparate hack and not a solution)
- I want to send media other than text
- I want my messages to be e2ee
- I want presence - e.g. know if someone is available, busy, away
- I want voice/video calls and many more…
None of these were solved by IRC but by the others you mentioned.
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
Also Matrix can bridge to XMPP, of course you wouldn’t because nobody uses XMPP.
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
No. 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.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
The analogy is that you buy a car (because if it breaks, the car and your entertainment stuff, you will buy a new one to replace it, you will also carry all maintenance) but suddenly you can’t drive backwards anymore because the manufacturer decided retroactively that you should pay extra for that (possibly in a subscription).
I would say it is your good right then to make your car drive backwards regardless of what it may take.
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
I think the only sustainable option here is to keep media on the instance it was first posted to and every instance managing their own stuff.
If it gets too crowded close registrations and another instance grows.