How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

XMPP was always a bit weird for my taste and I doubt it would ever take off, but yea the idea was solid for the time.

And so, the comparison is apt. Facebook and other shit company cannot enter Fediverse, or they'll destroy it. And I don't mean just spoil it or poison it with some toxic users, no, I mean they will literally destroy it, or at least make it unusable to the degree that everyone will be forced out (some possibly transferring to the Facebook cesspit).

We've seen it time and time and again and again. People with the "wait and see" approach need only to look into the past, on the absolute wasteland of well-meaning open projects strangled by corporations.

That's not even getting into the principal differences of approach even if it was somehow in good faith. Like how do you reconcile Facebook's real name policy or WhatsApp's reliance on phone numbers and data harvesting with something like Lemmy? This is fucking absurd.

Btw I get annoyed when people say there were no smartphones in 2005.