@aurynn Of course, it will not survive in this form....

@aurynn Of course, it will not survive in this form. For instance, IRC and Jabber are almost dead by now. Two examples of open platforms of the past. But there will be something else, open-source and maintened by passioned admins.

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Aurynn Shaw

@inktvis75 everything dies. It’s okay if it does.

28 Apr 2023 at 5:50 | Open on cloudisland.nz

Pēteris Krišjānis

@inktvis75 @aurynn tbh IRC has always been 'alive' as much as it can be. Jabber never fully took off for mainstream social interaction (XMMP protocol itself however has been more successful), and Matrix stepped in.
Overall protocols and communities are who drives current development. So ActivityPub is here to stay. How Fediverse evolves remains to be seen.

28 Apr 2023 at 12:40 | Open on toot.lv

Frederik Vos

@peteriskrisjanis @aurynn yes IRC is still there, but id I compare it with the time that I was there every day, more then 20 years ago… It is almost dead. I still visit it from time to time.
Oh men, i am getting old…

28 Apr 2023 at 14:27 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Pēteris Krišjānis

@inktvis75 @aurynn tbh we at work use IRC as reliable RPC / distributed message system for our software projects.
But overall, things evolve. I feel though Fediverse and ActivityPub is in very good place technical growth wise. I think this will be some time before something better comes along.

28 Apr 2023 at 14:29 | Open on toot.lv

MSavoritias

@inktvis75 @aurynn

Its funny how having hubdrends of servers for #irc with tens of thousands of users and #xmpp having hundrends of thousands of servers and being used by fortnite is almost dead 🤔

Then is barely alive after a half a billion users?
I wonder what #gemini is also or #gopher. It feels pretty alive to me 🤷

29 Apr 2023 at 8:25 | Open on tilde.zone

Frederik Vos

@msavoritias @aurynn https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2022
it's nowhere comparing to the numbers twenty years ago, and there were less internet users in that time. For xmpp: i am totally unaware of everything happening in the gaming world, so I missed that.

29 Apr 2023 at 16:31 | Open on social.linux.pizza

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