• runswithjedi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have no interest in using anything that Facebook or Twitter makes. But I’m genuinely at a loss for why I should be worried about them. What could they do to affect Lemmy?

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Facebook, Google, Apple, Zoom and others’ chat platforms are made out of defederated XMPP, being the reason XMPP, a federated chat protocol itself, has never become popular in the past 20 years.

      Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is a tactic Western capitalist tech companies use to exploit open source technologies for profits and control over society.