Companies have strategically undermined community driven projects in the past many times. We should all keep an eye out for corporate movements in this space. I felt the duty to spread this awareness.
[YSK about corporations’ strategies to kill open source protocols] cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/571039
[https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html]
I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it’s important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don’t want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.
This happened with the open source messaging service that ran on the internet service layer, google killed that I believe.
Here’s a summary: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
XMPP.
They discuss that whole situation in detail in the linked article.
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea there was a messaging format like XMPP
Yep, should serve as a corollary to the “cloud is just someone else’s computer” meme.
