How can we keep the fediverse federated? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by Phileosopher@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I only partly live under a rock, so I've now heard that the Facebooks is making Threads, and it'll talk to Mastodon.

Any idea how to keep them from taking over? Apparently, you're a weirdo these days if you use Firefox, Brave/Qwant, and trust FLOSS > proprietary.

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[-] rmam@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If FLOSS wants to win, it needs to be more approachable.

A proprietary, closed and gated service is not free and open source software. FLOSS does not win if a third party adds a bridge to consume content through a protocol. I think that the FLOSS community in general and XMPP in particular gained nothing at all by Google adopting it in Google Chat.

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