In [[Flancia]] we'll meet

SRE by day, protopian by night. Chaotic good (well meaning) rogue.

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I used to cross post to @flancian@twitter.com via https://moa.party. I tried to be equally responsive and engaged on both networks and I believe in the importance of welcoming users from Walled Gardens into the Fediverse.

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: September 21st, 2020
  • In [[Flancia]] we'll meet@social.cooptoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Threads: We've Seen This Before
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    1 year ago

    @CrazyDuck of course moving to a proprietary protocol doesn’t mean that federation must die. Indeed we kept federation alive for users for a while by bridging gTalk (legacy, still supporting federation) and Hangouts (proprietary). It was the dream of at least a few (myself included) to open up the Hangouts API and/or build federation on top of it, but it was not prioritized – I take part of the responsibility for that, even if I was just an individual contributor: I could have done it as a 20%.

  • In [[Flancia]] we'll meet@social.cooptoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Threads: We've Seen This Before
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    1 year ago

    @CrazyDuck Yes, I believe so :) Of course this is just how I remember it, it reflects my opinions and not of my employer’s, etc.

    From my rough memory, around the time this happened in 2013 the following was true:

    1. Federation was considered to be already languishing due to relatively little usage aside from big instances like AOL (who were going down in any case). Actual people running their own individual/community instances were relatively few, and a significant fraction were spammers :(