How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

jherazob@beehaw.org to Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 398 points –
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
ploum.net

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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you missed the point where the open source devs were in a constant race to adapt to all the google-"innovations" and actually troubleshoot on them which ends up demotivating