Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you’re a server admin, please defederate Meta’s domain “threads.net

If you don’t run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate “threads.net”.

  • Dieinahole
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    1011 months ago

    Xmpp’s popularity isn’t the point.

    The point is google intentionally killed it

    • Lucia [she/her]
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      411 months ago

      How do you define if a communication protocol is dead? I use XMPP everyday, it works just well.

      • nakal
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        511 months ago

        Also, I doubt that Google wanted to destroy XMPP. They simply needed a chat then noticed it’s crap for mobile devices. They wanted to offer their users seemless migration to the new proprietary protocol.

        I was sad that Google stopped to use an official standard, but there are many better free options left.

        • kpw
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          211 months ago

          XMPP works great on mobile devices today. Google could have easily developed and published such extensions themselves.