I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[+] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world -9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

God why are all crying about XMPP? If you want to make it more popular just start using it yourself. If you don't have anyone to speak with over there just speak with me (seriously DM me).

Also we have a lot of open source alternatives by now so XMPP is just one of many good options which means that the people will go whith what they feel comfortable with. Trust me, if XMPP would be the only decentralized, open source chat protocol around I'd be using it exclusively and many others would probably too.

[–] smeg 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think xmpp is just the example of what could happen to the fediverse if Facebook follow the same play

[–] Mac@mander.xyz -1 points 11 months ago

Damn, if only there were examples written down somewhere, perhaps online, where we could read theories based on past events about this potential situation.

Oh well i guess 🤷‍♂️

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying Facebook will lose interest in the feddiverse and leave it largely unscathed to go on to do what it has always done? Not sure why people are so doom and gloom about this. This seems like the best outcome you all would want.

[–] smeg 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, I think the point of the article is that they might try to siphon off all the casual fediverse uses with flashy features and big names and then break compatibility

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

There's barely anyone to siphon right now.