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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
submitted 3 years ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 years ago

In short: Embrace, start pushing the service, driving users to it. Expand: add non standard extentions, locking users onto your quasi-compatable version. Extingish: break compatibility entirely, preventing users from swiching to the fully open version.

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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