• CrimeDad
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    -511 months ago

    The Fediverse is going to get a lot bigger once Meta turns on federation for Threads.

          • @[email protected]
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            811 months ago

            i use it. conversations is a p good android app and it’s in the f-droid repo. disroot runs an xmpp service and if you’re cool, they’ll give you an account.

            • @Rolando
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              111 months ago

              I’m not the person you asked, but I’ve heard an argument that goes like this: Evil Company will “embrace” something, then “extend” it in a way that only works with Evil Company’s product, then “extinguish” that thing by making Evil Company’s approach incompatible with it. A discussion is provided here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

              • CrimeDad
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                111 months ago

                Yeah, but I don’t know if that really applies to XMPP. Google turned on XMPP federation for seven years and then turned it off. The article basically admits that it’s counterfactual to say that XMPP would have wider adoption or be more developed today if Google never did that.

                I think a more significant concern would be if Meta hires away Fediverse developers, but that is separate from them just turning on federation.