I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars “web3”

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    That’s exactly what Apple, Google, and Facebook did to XMPP. They all started with a federated open protocol messaging system. At first iChat users could talk to GChat, and Messenger users, as well as users of thousands of other servers. After they built their network they closed off federation under the guise of “feature development”.

    To this day, iMessage still uses an XMPP based backend. But green text is for Apple users only!

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      Something poetic about Facebook dropping xmpp and now coming back to mastodon

      I can totally see the big 5 trying to the same things with activitypub