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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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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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[–] EricHill78@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't the only reason for them to even want to be a part of this would be to monitize? If they can't post advertisements what would they do here?