Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.

  • Björn Tantau@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, I was thinking of Jabber as well, when I heard this. For a brief period everything was perfect. Facebook and Google were both using Jabber. And even WhatsApp was using it, I think. So if you had an account somewhere you could actually chat with all your friends, totally unimpeded.

    EU should hurry up with their federation laws.

    • wagesj45@kbin.social
      22·
      2 years ago

      you can still use XMPP. i use it, my family uses it.

      hate facebook all you want (i certainly do) but dont act like normies would be living in a federated utopia without them. theyd be on whatever is closed source with the most number of people and the most advertising dollars behind it and the simplest user experience. normies like easy, and its hard to blame them.

      • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
        31·
        2 years ago

        Yes and no. Normies use federated systems too: Websites and email.

        • wagesj45@kbin.social
          02·
          2 years ago

          true. but don’t forget that when these things were new, they came kicking and screaming. think of how many people retired during the PC/internet boom just so they wouldn’t have to deal with it all at work. the entire world changed and made websites/email a necessity to exist and survive. i don’t really see a minor flavor of tech like microblogging following that path. people will have an option between “easy and closed source” and “mildly just a little technical but with freedom” and will choose to go with whatever is easy.