Evan ProdromouJul 9, 2023

I am not open to your ahistorical take on Google Chat and XMPP.

Google didn't do anything wrong by using an open standard.

They didn't do anything wrong by building a good interface that people liked to use.

And they didn't do anything wrong by disconnecting from the network when the spam and harassment outweighed the benefit to their users.

We, the XMPP community, failed to capitalize on success by diversifying the network. It's our own fault not enough nodes were there.

Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 9, 2023
If you'd like to draw some conclusions about ActivityPub from this, it should not be that a network should disallow supernodes, but that we have to counterbalance them with a wide diversity of other nodes of different sizes with different value propositions.
Show threadAndres JalintonJul 9, 2023
@evan I want to do this, I want my own server, and contribute to decentralization.
I recently joined infosec's relay and it's filling up my HD and slowing down my server. That is only one relay, a portion of the , if I wanted to federate with Threads, that is bigger than 35x the  it's not technically possible.
Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 9, 2023
@Andres c'mon. This is an off-topic reply. Start your own thread; there are good solutions to your problem.
Show threadAndres Jalinton
@evan fair enough
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