How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

  • wet_lettuce@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    This is a really good call out. I’ve been thinking about this article since I read it earlier today, and I never thought about the distinction between user groups and how people used xmpp vs how people use a activitypub Lemmy/kbin.

    I think you are spot on.

    Which actually makes me think that mastodon might have a little to worry about since its less anonymous and who you follow actually matters. And there is more interaction between (not anonymous) people.

    My friends are like your friends in that we all use reddit, but never even share our usernames with each other.

    • cacheson@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Which actually makes me think that mastodon might have a little to worry about since its less anonymous and who you follow actually matters. And there is more interaction between (not anonymous) people.

      Yeah, I guess there’s more of a focus on individual personalities. Still, mastodon has its core of users that choose to use it despite the fact that it doesn’t have the celebrities or the millions of people that twitter has. They don’t need any of the corporate platforms to federate with them, whereas XMPP did. That puts them in a much better negotiating position as far as protocol changes go.