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 threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@evan

That sounds like an interesting theory.

Are you saying that "#supernodes" (like #Threads?) are o.k., but there need to be more "standard" #Fediverse instances to counterbalance their huge number of users?

Jul 9, 2023 at 9:55pmWeb
Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 10, 2023
@HistoPol yes. Lots of different nodes, lots of sizes.
Show threadEvan ProdromouJul 10, 2023
@HistoPol and diverse. Not just all account servers; different kinds of services.