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Are we defederating from Threads? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen that some instances have already done it preemptively.

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

In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway.

Isn't this what actually killed XMPP? XMPP still works, is still viable. But everyone stopped using it. That's got more to do with Facebook than Google, imho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes. What they specifically did though was extend the protocol so that anyone who wasn't using their version of XMPP via Google Talk would be incompatible or seem "broken" when it really wasn't. It's just that they were using non-standard features, both incentivizing people to just switch to Google Talk and for development on the core protocol to slow down.

I bet money Threads is going to do the same thing. They'll introduce Threads only features that don't work with all the standard Activitypub implementations, causing frustration with Thread users and putting pressure on people to just jump ship to Threads from standard Activitypub implementations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Okay, but again... so? That's just defederation. If that's the worst they can do to us.... So? That's also your proposed solution, so what!