How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

  • amki@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    An XMPP developer would likely have been delusional about the protocol he himself developed. But at the time I can assure you XMPP was completely irrelevant. AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo! and maybe IRC were the tools of the day back then.

    Because of actual competition (which XMPP had absolutely no part in) multi protocol messengers had their golden age then.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      As a newb techie back then. Using 4 of the ones you listed.

      I never heard of XMPP and still don’t know what it was …