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No need to apologize, I understand your viewpoint. I don't understand your "Lol, nice hyperbole" comment tho.

"We should let actual terrorists communicate and radicalize others, because there’s a block button already. PS: I’m very smart.” <--- Isn't that exactly what you believe in then?

Google dropping XMPP leading to the death of the protocol is a distortion of truth. Sure it hurted the XMPP federation back then, but this is just one aspect.

For one, XMPP had many competitors since the beginning including other open federated ones like IRC. XMPP was just a new standard with new interesting features. Most people used propietary messenger like AIM back then.

Imo the most critical reason why XMPP did not become mainstream, was because they slept through the early smartphone phase. iOS for a long time had no client compatible with XMPP servers. Smartphones nowadays dominate the global messenger market tho, which made federated XMPP helpless against the rise of WhatsApp, iMessage and so on.

In the desktop space XMPP never really overshadowed IRC significantly. IRC kept all the old tech nerds, while Discord now swallows all the younger nerds. Skype, Microsoft Teams and Zoom took the rest.

XMPP again slept through all of this. Jitsi and Matrix/Element rose up as new open standards because of that as well.

Google Talk was never that big in comparison. Even if Google had kept their XMPP implementation on life support to this day, I would doubt, that federated XMPP would be a big player even then.

Also towards the end, Google Talk had less XMPP extensions then the rest of the XMPP federation. That's the opposite of "Extend".

Horror never really faced me, but the Lavender Town urban legend, Squidward's Suicide and Sonic.exe all scared me shitless to the point, that these made more religious.

would be great if Fdroid could support payments as well

Have mercy with yourself.

I would like the opposite. Hide any upvotes/downvotes in any context

The Internet is a mistake.

You either censor them or you let them radicalize people. There is no inbetween.

Do you see this differently?

Exactly. The fear-mongering against Threads here on Lemmy is just insane.

People just spread some vague memes about XMPP, EEE, general facebook controversies and misinformation on how ActivityPub really works.

People list so many reasons here about how threads will destroy Lemmy, but most of these are just wrong or misrepresented.

Clarifications of everyone, including the ones by the Mastodon creator himself just get ignored here.

I mean I get it. We are an alt-platform. The mainstream is stinky and scary, but just don't spread wrong information.

Time to become a Gulf Arab

Was Signal a bad experience for you?

I just don't see it happening. There is already fragmentation between each carriers' implementation of RCS. It is so bad that Google made their own servers for hosting RCS for Google Messages users.

This results in a situation where RCS messages send by Google Messages to another user of Google Messages have more features like e2ee which are not available if you use another app. RCS messages from Samsung's app would for example not have this feature.

iMessage itself also has more features than RCS. Built in e2ee would be a big one, and aome other more vain ones. I am sure Apple could add even more features, until the EU will finally mandate RCS compatibility for everyone in 10 years.

RCS is just a slight upgrade of green bubble SMS, something like Signal or even WhatsApp would still be superior.

RCS is just a shit protocol, outdated before even arrival.