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Embrace, extend and extinguish. That's was the strategy behind Google's adoption of the open protocol #XMPP, which eventually died from it. And it will be the strategy when Facebook attempts to extinguish the #fediverse via #threads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish For at longer story and analysis, read here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
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Please don't fuel the rumours that XMPP is dead. It's very much alive! 🙂

As you said, XMPP is an open protocol. It does not depend on entities like Google to keep it alive.

Just like the Fediverse is alive without Meta.

This entry was edited (11 months ago)