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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
submitted 1 year ago by jherazob to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[โ€“] DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, this is a good article. I was on the fence about Meta, wondering how they'd cause any damage, and this article cleared that up for me.

[โ€“] Serinus@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Same. I was familiar with "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" but somehow still didn't get it until Ploum explained it to me slowly.