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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] therealpygon@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly right. Human greed doesn’t only come from money.

  • “It will be free advertisement and will help the project grow!”
  • “Look how many people are using my server. MY server. I’m popular now!”
  • And the more obvious, “If I make my server big enough, maybe I can cash out by being bought by this big company!”

In the end and from whatever the source, that bus always ends up in the same place once they convince themselves to get on it.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

They come with the gift of millions of new users, and all you have to give them is ownership of 95% of your users, forever.