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helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months agoThis is a topic that’s been covered a hundred times, with intelligent people realizing the “extinguish” doesn’t exist.
If Meta decides to stop federating then we are no worse off than we were before they started.
millie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
The fact that I haven’t had anything equivalent to Pidgin or Trillian installed in over a decade says otherwise. When Facebook became big it literally wiped out the active userbase of 4 concurrently relevant instant messaging platforms.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
And what does it mean that I’ve never even heard of either of these?
Facebook never interoperated with any of those, or any other platforms, so I’m not sure what your point is.
millie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Exactly.
Facebook messenger literally integrated with XMPP to do exactly what Meta is clearly planning with Threads. It’s right out of their own playbook. You are factually incorrect.
jarfil@beehaw.org 7 months ago
XMPP commited suicide when for several years it refused to standardize on file/image transfer, and audio/video calls.
Guess what end-users kept demanding, and kept failing with XMPP.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
LOL you don’t realize that you’re proving my point.
And…those services suddenly stopped functioning?