My reading of that isn't that Google killed XMPP, it's that they thought XMPP would be useful for the userbase they brought in, they realised it wasn't, and they ditched it. There's no indication that XMPP had the userbase and lost it to Google, or even that XMPP had features that were stolen by Google
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Yes exactly
Unpopular opinion but defederating Meta is a terrible idea. What are people thinking will happen? Allow them to federate and you'll have mastodon users able to view and interact with posts from Threads without needing to be concerned about ads or tracking, without giving over any more control of privacy than they would to any other fediverse instance, and without needing to possess accounts homed within the Meta infrastructure.
Defederate them, and anyone who wants to interact with anyone on threads will most likely need to maintain a presence on both and handover more personal data to Meta than they otherwise would.
Defederating is actively hostile to fediverse users.
I have a chrome plugin to strip any Pinterest results from searches, it's the absolute worst
They're all posted by a single bot account. Block the bot and you see none of the posts
The corporate web may be dying/reinventing itself. Everyone talks about FOSS and having a user driven experience.
You say that, but I would politely suggest that your use of 'everyone' is narrow to your personal experience, at a guess with a focus on those who are either IT professionals or enthusiastic amateurs.
90+ of the world don't care in the least. They want the functionality to access and share information and connect with either their friends or a wider audience. They want reliable and simple functionality. Those people don't really care if they're playing in a corporate walled garden.
FOSS projects with user ownership are a brilliant part of the modern tech landscape but don't be deluded into thinking they're a vast global paradigm shift
I meant mainly that sensible planning means you build an allowance for a capex budget into what you're charging. This would normally be the case for both models but when you have to cater for the needs of private shareholders' demands for profits, it's all too easy to 'cost save' by just eliminating that capex budget
Howard completely ignores the profit motive though. Public ownership doesn't have to mean subsidised.
Under public ownership what the customer pays covers operating costs plus long term maintenance. What we've seen is that under private ownership what the customer pays covers operating costs plus profits/dividends, and long term maintenance is ignored until a bailout is called for.
Farage blatantly has income sources that would fall foul of UK banking anti-money laundering and sanctions rules. They absolutely should have the power to not provide banking services to people funded by illegal dark money. More than that, they have anobligation not to
ActivityPub is no more radical than NNTP. Lemmy is almost an exact reimplementation of newsgroups