@aurynn
Oh thank you!
I'm getting tired of people saying that it's great that big corporations are coming.

@aurynn killing XMPP was a group effort, wasn't it? Embrace and extinguish.

@aurynn I maintain that the _millisecond_ that some product manager at google believes that federation is no longer necessary for the gmail business, smtp interoperability will be replaced by some kind of (probably initially SMTP-shaped) "submit mail to gmail" interface that they can then extend arbitrarily.

@aurynn Embrace & extinguish

@aurynn now i know next years april fools joke.

@aurynn so annoying when that was still happening: Google used established XMPP standards for plain text messages and nothing else, but they managed to convince everyone it was all the other implementations that were broken.

@aurynn Google is also in the process of killing email, but nobody seems to have noticed yet.

@aurynn

Ah yes

Additional Microsoft IIS HTTP status codes 400.7 or 401.502 or Exchange’s SMTP 550 5.2.0 to make the existing codes much more difficult to interpret.

@aurynn I like to think that if the EU can force Apple to use USB-C, they could have the resources & commitment to force commercial soc. media platforms to use open protocols

OTOH, Google Facebook Microsoft

@aurynn

Exactly! In joining the Fediverse, expect Meta to follow the Microsoft Playbook:

1) Agree to international standard
2) Produce proprietary extensions to the standard that nobody likes or wants
3) Claim nobody else is implementing the standard properly

Or

1) Make all the right noises about collaboration and Open Source
2) Ensure that pre-compiled versions of the Open Source have a secret API that only Meta products can use
3) Diss competitors for not having the same features

@aurynn Microsoft lost.

@aurynn This feels like AOL going on the Internet all over again.

@aurynn
Facebook also killed their XMPP support!

@aurynn or AOL.. but like.. here we are?!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September