Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.

Do you know there’s an XMPP-enabled version of the Fediverse? Here’s an example of one such site:

https://mov.im/

Also, you can set up Friendica to work with XMPP. To wit:

Server admins can configure their ejabberd or prosody XMPP/Jabber servers to authenticate against the Friendica user database. If configured this way, every Friendica account is also a XMPP/Jabber account and can be used with any XMPP/Jabber client.

See also: https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/chats

So XMPP is a totally valid protocol you can use with the Fediverse right now. As for why few people do this, I don’t know. Maybe they really do believe that Google “killed” XMPP—which is, in fact, untrue.

@fediversenews

Colgate-Palmolive, which controls 40% of the toothpaste market, has increased prices 12% even as volume declined by 2%. As a result, the company's profits have soared.

Greed and market concentration are driving inflation, not workers demanding better wages and benefits.