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minus-squarenottheengineer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down1·2 years agoThis article sums it up very well: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html A monopolistic corporation joining a free (not gratis, free as in free software) network is always a hostile takeover.
minus-squareMashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·2 years agoThat was a good read, totally changed my position. Thank you.
minus-squaresudo@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down6·2 years agoWould you consider editing your original post to reflect that :)
minus-squarefbievan@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 years agoI hate this article since it compares to XMPP. A much more accurate comparison would be seething like E-mail, I believe. I get it… I’m likely going to block meta instances from the servers I have whenever I have time to figure out how to.
minus-squarenottheengineer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoHow is the comparison to XMPP lacking? Anyways, the same thing is starting to happen to E-Mail as well: http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html?m=1
minus-squarefbievan@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agonot suprised, E-mail has been on that downward spiral for a while. The only thing keeping that alive is many independent E-mail servers.
This article sums it up very well: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
A monopolistic corporation joining a free (not gratis, free as in free software) network is always a hostile takeover.
That was a good read, totally changed my position. Thank you.
Would you consider editing your original post to reflect that :)
I hate this article since it compares to XMPP. A much more accurate comparison would be seething like E-mail, I believe.
I get it… I’m likely going to block meta instances from the servers I have whenever I have time to figure out how to.
I don’t see threads providing any value
How is the comparison to XMPP lacking?
Anyways, the same thing is starting to happen to E-Mail as well: http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html?m=1
not suprised, E-mail has been on that downward spiral for a while. The only thing keeping that alive is many independent E-mail servers.