With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.
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Man, I’m not gonna relitigate this but no, Google Talk didn’t kill XMPP. XMPP is not, in fact, dead. WhatsApp killed Google Talk and pretty much every other competitor and XMPP would have been in that boat with or without Google Talk.
This is gonna keep coming up, it’s gonna keep being wrong and I’m really not gonna bother picking this fight each and every single time.
And Reddit killed phpBB (kind of).
And phpBB killed the newsgroups.
Etc.You are right. Convenience killed the previous “protocol”.
Did you bother to read the article or did you only decide to write this argument w/o any substantial basis?
For mastodon if it can help:
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Open your favorite text editor and write threads.net
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Save it as csv
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On your profile on Mastodon, click “edit profile” and scroll to “import/export”.
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Choose “import”, it will open a menu.
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In this menu be sure to click on “Following list” and choose “Domain blocking list”.
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Browse and select your CSV
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Click upload
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Also, Mammoth 2. The new app developed by
Googlefor browsing Mastodont contents. I’m definitely not worry at all by that.EDIT
Glad to be wrong on this one.
It’s developedby Google?
I thought it was developed by mozilla
All-in on open source and the Fediverse, with support from Mozilla, Marc Benioff, Long Journey Ventures, and others.
Don’t know if the “others” may include google.
Closed source - apple only garbage. HARD PASS
So Google used Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” strategy and looks like Facebook is aiming to use ut as well
These days, we just call it “the stages of enshitification”. And basically every large tech company is doing something like that
