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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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[–] 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.