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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how could we disallow them from joining?

easy, identify them, never allow them to federate, block them in your firewall. Their instances won't be anonymous

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, but you can only do that if they already joined the fediverse. I replied to "the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse". It's also questionable if everyone will block them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

you know what I meant. Block them with extreme prejudice when they're identified

as for your second point, I assume there will be considerable pressure on all instances to follow suit or be defederated themselves. Don't let their taint spread