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I would LOVE if there was a way to federate FB, instagram, twitter, etc... You post and read on your preferred platform but can see posts from your friends fro

• neetdeth 4y ago
  You're describing a federation of platforms, and this can work, at least technically. XMPP worked wonderfully for a brief moment. Unfortunately, profit incentives are aligned against it. The Fediverse, at least as I see it advocated here, is not a federation of platforms but a federation of social cliques, where your ability to communicate with someone else is determined by connectivity in the clique graph. This is a great thing for the kinds of people who would have become deeply invested in a web forum or newsgroup back in the day, but it cannot (and arguably should not attempt to) address the mass market.
  • zaik 4y ago
    XMPP still works wonderfully if you want to setup a chat server for your friends and family and be independent from all the walled garden messaging apps.