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   Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 11:21:57 JST Dare Obasanjo

   When people make up conspiracy theories about how Threads won’t support interoperability with the Fediverse because it’s a threat to Meta, I have a simple thought experiment.

   Is being able to email non-Gmail users a threat to Google and Gmail?

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 11:25:03 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Rob Simmons

     @simrob @quoll @carnage4life Pretty sure XMPP died a death not caused by any rug pull. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31519122

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     Rob Simmons (simrob@social.wub.site)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 11:25:14 JST Rob Simmons

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     @quoll @carnage4life thank you for that example. Also Google obviously thought XMPP (sic?) interoperability was a threat

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     quoll (√) (quoll@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 11:25:15 JST quoll (√)

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     The way google treats non corporate email servers would indicate yes.

     Google has almost single handily made it impossible to self host email.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 12:33:33 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Rob Simmons

     @simrob @quoll @carnage4life

     It truly is. But I'm suggesting lots in that discussion to show that is not what did in XMPP.

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     Rob Simmons (simrob@social.wub.site)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 12:33:34 JST Rob Simmons

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     • quoll (√)

     @tchambers @quoll @carnage4life I guess I see how you read that thread and come to that conclusion. I read that thread and come to the opposite conclusion: embrace and extend is the oldest rug pull in the book