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
this is why the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse: they’ll destroy it
great article, if you’re here scrolling through the comments I urge you to stop and actually read the article, it’s worth your time I promise
the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse
How are they not allowed? How is it checked, how prevented?
As I see it, they can freely use the code, freely set up instances, freely create user accounts on their own or other instances, with ‘independent’ users, employees or bots.
The only thing stopping them is the current fediverse’s insignificance. We’re just not tasty enough, yet. But if we become, how could we disallow them from joining?
how could we disallow them from joining?
easy, identify them, never allow them to federate, block them in your firewall. Their instances won’t be anonymous
Ok, but you can only do that if they already joined the fediverse. I replied to “the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse”. It’s also questionable if everyone will block them.
