Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

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Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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Xmpp's popularity isn't the point.

The point is google intentionally killed it

How do you define if a communication protocol is dead? I use XMPP everyday, it works just well.

Also, I doubt that Google wanted to destroy XMPP. They simply needed a chat then noticed it's crap for mobile devices. They wanted to offer their users seemless migration to the new proprietary protocol.

I was sad that Google stopped to use an official standard, but there are many better free options left.

XMPP works great on mobile devices today. Google could have easily developed and published such extensions themselves.