• @rottingleaf
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    413 hours ago

    They intentionally killed it, when it wasn’t theirs, it was a nuisance, when it was theirs, it wasn’t a nuisance, but also not too useful.

    It’s about control, I think.

    I mean, without Skype going bad would all these <censored> IMs, especially Telegram, become so popular?

    • Spaniard
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      411 hours ago

      Embrace, extend, extinguish.

      • @rottingleaf
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        17 hours ago

        Yes, which makes me wonder on the old question if it’s possible to create a distributed IM as prolific as bittorrent protocol.

        In that last example they did something right. At some point I liked ed2k+kad and would swear at bittorrent for not incorporating search, reputation and such as basic components, but maybe that’s what made torrents survive when other filesharing tools went out of common knowledge.

        I’m going to think on this.