Companies have strategically undermined community driven projects in the past many times. We should all keep an eye out for corporate movements in this space. I felt the duty to spread this awareness.
[YSK about corporations’ strategies to kill open source protocols] cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/571039
[https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html]
I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it’s important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don’t want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.
This happened with the open source messaging service that ran on the internet service layer, google killed that I believe.
XMPP.
They discuss that whole situation in detail in the linked article.
Here’s a summary: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Yep, should serve as a corollary to the “cloud is just someone else’s computer” meme.
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea there was a messaging format like XMPP
Yep.
I do like throwing cold water on things, I’m a big fan, but there’s no cold water to throw here. Corporations are entities designed to pursue a single goal as efficiently as possible. If our destruction would aid that goal, then they will pursue it. To do otherwise would be a failure of their responsibility to society, which is not the same as an individual’s responsibility.
Gotta use the proper open source lincenses.
