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   Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 23:45:50 JST Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

   I don't really understand why Jack Dorsey builds #bluesky when the #fediverse already exists.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 06:41:31 JST djsumdog

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     • 🌲-alist
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     • Mek101
     Facebook had an XMPP interface that was buggy and sucked ass, so you'd have to check the web interface to see if messages actually got delivered. Facebook also tried @facebook.com e-mail address for all users at one point, which they also killed.
     
     FB's XMPP never federated. Google's did, but they silently killed federation around .. 2013 or 2014 I think. Pissed a lot of people off.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 06:41:32 JST sj_zero

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     • Mek101
     I believe both facebook chat and google chat started as xmpp compatible before they got their stuff working the way they wanted and shut down the original. Microsoft isn't the only one with an embrace, extend, extinguish strategy.
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     Mek101 (mek101@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 06:41:33 JST Mek101

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     @Natanox Not Invented Here syndrome + distributed accounts + centralized moderation

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     🌲-alist (threalist@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 06:41:33 JST 🌲-alist

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     • Mek101
     > centralized moderation
     
     I dont understand the underlying tech, but the smart money says they see the fediverse as an eventual threat because of how decentralized it is, so they are making a shiny new version with backdoor tools to centralize and control