• tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      It really helps to hear a historical perspective on this. The issue is not a matter of, “let’s give them a chance and see how it goes.” It’s more like, “we know this has gone very badly in the past and the incentives are clear for Meta to sabotage us.”

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        1 year ago

        yep. And as an XMPP networks op, I wish we had figured-out the technical measures to avoid it in the meantime. Practically, it boils down to preventing a single actor from consolidating a “greater than X” share of the network, while retaining the desirable aspects like “promoting the better services for the most users”.

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      1 year ago

      Really good write-up!

      It persuaded me that federating with any corporation is not a good move at such early stages.