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

  • @JeffCraig
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    31 year ago

    Instances with admins like that will weed themselves out, but I think you make a good point that when you join a smaller instance we should have conversations with our admins and make sure they will work together with their users to drive a better fediverse. There are going to be a massive amount of bad admins starting their own instances because they want power, so make sure you don’t waste time with those.

    There are so many issues with this tech that are being exposed now that it worries me. “All” should never have been inclusive of everything just because one member of the instance subbed or viewed something for that other instance. Instances should have to reach a certain critical mass before that. There needs to be an “All” and an “Extended”.