@aral this is what basically happened with XMPP. All big players joined, only to build walled gardens later and excluding anyone that had their smaller servers.
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Jaime Soriano
@aral this is what basically happened with XMPP. All big players joined, only to build walled gardens later and excluding anyone that had their smaller servers. 10 comments
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Jaime Soriano
@fishidwardrobe @aral for me the point is to don't trust them, they are doing this only for their business, not for the people.
Fish Id Wardrobe
@jsoriano @aral Don't trust who? Facebook? Sure? One of the hundred or so independent XMPP servers still running? Not so much. https://list.jabber.at/
Jaime Soriano
@fishidwardrobe @aral yes Meta, or any other big player that expresses support for an open protocol.
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@fishidwardrobe @jsoriano @aral > But hardly anyone uses it now. Absolutely false. That is a very common misconception that has me scratching my head on a regular basis.
Fish Id Wardrobe
@walruslifestyle @jsoriano @aral That's lovely to know. I must just be having the worst luck with it then. There's one person I talk to on XMPP and once every six months whatever server I'm on shuts down and I have to pick a new one. I think we've given up and switched to email.
Ankit Pati
@walruslifestyle @jsoriano @aral This. The big players never took anyone away. They just temporarily added users who otherwise never would have bothered to set up XMPP. I suspect this won’t be much different, and also that we don’t have the power to stop it. Not without European regulatory oversight, anyways. |
@jsoriano @aral “But I hang around in a few nice 60-users chatrooms! #WorksOnMyMachine”