Many use the example of XMPP that it was killed off by Google in this manner, but some disagree: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/26/xmpp-google
What makes it more difficult for Mastodon to be extinguished is the anti corporate and anti commercial attitude in general, and the fact even largest instance mastodon.social has enforced these principles.
It's rare to see truly open source and non profit software in this scale, emphasis on the word scale. XMPP and many others never really got the foothold without for-profit companies. Mastodon in the other hand has succeeded already in that regard, on its own. So this makes Threads' "help" not really needed.
#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
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2025-03-09 08:35:59 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…cu42
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