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Bad example. Probably not intentional, but of course they did kill XMPP usage in the end. Messenger (and all the other big tech non-XMPP platforms) is where the
by st3fan 2y ago
Bad example. Probably not intentional, but of course they did kill XMPP usage in the end. Messenger (and all the other big tech non-XMPP platforms) is where the users are now. Nobody recently said "i need to get on XMPP to connect to my community, friends & family".
You can probably give an example that you actively use it, but you are probably one in a million.
Lets hope Meta is not going to steamroll over the fediverse in a similar way.
- redserk 2y agoThey didn’t do federation with XMPP. At best you could use Pidgin or other XMPP clients. That doesn’t count as any form of embrace. XMPP is a needlessly complex protocol with very poor organization and planning that, in the process of trying to cater to everyone, catered to nobody except a vocal aspirational group online. Simply put, XMPP killed XMPP.
- rglullis 2y agoNo, they did not. The number of XMPP users pre-Facebook (and pre-Google talk) is on the same order as it is today. My point is that even if Facebook were to attempt EEE with ActivityPub, the existing userbase would not give up.