I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

    • MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1915·
      11 months ago

      This article is so misleading. XMPP died for the same reason all technology dies. No one used it. Even if Google hadn’t ever used it, it would still be dead. I know this because Google Talk and ALL Google chat apps are dead. WhatsApp killed them all.

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        811·
        11 months ago

        In other words, Threads could help spreading the ActivityPub protocol more, not the other way around

    • PropaGandalf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      918·
      11 months ago

      God why are all crying about XMPP? If you want to make it more popular just start using it yourself. If you don’t have anyone to speak with over there just speak with me (seriously DM me).

      Also we have a lot of open source alternatives by now so XMPP is just one of many good options which means that the people will go whith what they feel comfortable with. Trust me, if XMPP would be the only decentralized, open source chat protocol around I’d be using it exclusively and many others would probably too.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        122·
        11 months ago

        I think xmpp is just the example of what could happen to the fediverse if Facebook follow the same play

        • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
          34·
          11 months ago

          Damn, if only there were examples written down somewhere, perhaps online, where we could read theories based on past events about this potential situation.

          Oh well i guess 🤷‍♂️