The biggest thing people point to is some rando's account of the death of XMPP. Which didn't actually happen? Sure, google defederated gtalk from XMPP, but quite honestly, I dunno if the author has a severe case of rose tinted glasses but XMPP was SHIT. No image support, no media support, no voice support, no room support. It was fucking awful and the protocol frozen for years. I remember searching for old gtalk friends on XMPP and finding out this had happened myself. I switched to matrix.

It's like everyone is convinced that somehow zuck is going to kill masto and the entire fediverse. Which is just whack. First, this is an EU "we're good guys" play by meta. Killing it is just dumb. Second, how will it exactly play out? I'm never going to sign up for threads or a meta account again, so I won't be using their stuff. It's neat but not a necessary condition of my social media that people there can read it if they wish. So, again, how is this anything but, heh ok cool I guess?

A quick tldr: has EEE ever actually worked? Can you point to a thing that was successfully squashed in the open source arena? I can think of a few proprietary products that have been squashed by other proprietary products, but nothing that's an open spec or standard. Most shit just does because it doesn't keep up with modern trends.