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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Inductor@feddit.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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[-] MudMan@kbin.social 170 points 9 months ago

Man, I'm not gonna relitigate this but no, Google Talk didn't kill XMPP. XMPP is not, in fact, dead. WhatsApp killed Google Talk and pretty much every other competitor and XMPP would have been in that boat with or without Google Talk.

This is gonna keep coming up, it's gonna keep being wrong and I'm really not gonna bother picking this fight each and every single time.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Both you and the writer claim to have been there back then, but have wildly different ideas for what happened... Were you a dev on XMPP too?

[-] amki@feddit.de 3 points 9 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.