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FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Meta, Facebook's parent company, is looking to launch their own fediverse platform. Some people are already advocating to block it en masse.

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Also, fun fact, Facebook messenger was XMPP compatible at some point, and just like Google, they eventually shut down federation to the detriment of the XMPP users as soon as they became close enough to a monopoly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769

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