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""I recently read Assault on the Open Internet, in which the author advised all Mastodon server owners to block Facebook's (Meta's) Barcelona (now Threads) servers that will be compatible with ActivityPub, the protocol that Mastodon uses. As the reason for this, he reminded readers that Google and Facebook "killed" XMPP, Google "killed" RSS via Google Reader, and Apple has begun "killing" the open Internet using Apple apps. By "killing", the author meant taking away so many users as to render the remaining network essentially irrelevant.

Google and Facebook killed the XMPP and RSS open communications protocols using Microsoft's strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish. After adopting the XMPP protocol and gathering almost all of its users onto their platforms, they refused to accept XMPP messages from other XMPP servers. Then, they switched to other protocols. They claimed they did this for various reasons. The truth is that corporations do not want to join open networks; they want to own them""
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This is old news.