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

submitted 3 years ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] duringoverflow@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

you missed the point where the open source devs were in a constant race to adapt to all the google-"innovations" and actually troubleshoot on them which ends up demotivating

[–] tdfischer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

did Google force them to do that, or did the open source devs just make a mistake?

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

So how do you know who to trust?