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Re:WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability by laurex on Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:56PM (#39635656)
There's an interesting philosophical question: if we have a fediverse or open source ecosystem for communication that is deeply integrated into Big Tech, does that make the fediverse stronger, or does it neuter the impact of fediverse as a possible "infrastructure-level" competitor of communication and information sharing?
Re:WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability by jayknight on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:29PM (#39635926)
We can look back in time to see that, ultimately, Google's adoption of XMPP was bad for XMPP.
Re:WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability by sneak on Thursday March 07, 2024 @07:35PM (#39636363)
It was also bad for Google, as it cost a lot to build, was almost completely unused by their userbase, and resulted in a lot of inbound spam.