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Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.(fosstodon.org)

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The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

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I found this article interesting and relevant: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

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this was an excellent article. I’m old enough to remember being impacted by these events.

I’m not in Munich, but I remember trying to embrace OpenOffice, and telling my wife how pissed off I was that Microsoft wasn’t following it’s own open source document standard.

I remember Google killing XMPP, and there’s also the more recent examples of what Facebook has done to WhatApp, Instagram, and the other potential competitors that got buried.

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