This is in the context of the situation with Mastodon and Facebook’s upcoming “Threads” project, and the subset of Mastodon instance admins who are pledging preemptively to block it. Thing is sure: if Google had not joined, XMPP would not be worse It would be the default decentralised communication platform. That it would be bigger and more important than it is today. But I’mĬonvinced that it would have grown slower and, maybe, healthier. Never considered as part of it? Nobody could say. Would XMPP be different today if Google never joined it or was I simply believe that it solves the same problem and compete in Protocol so I have no idea how it technically compares with XMPP. (Disclaimer: I’ve never studied the Matrix Reinvented it (Matrix) to compete while group chats were already So niche that when group chats becameĪll the rage (Slack, Discord), the free software community Too high expectation with GoogleĪdoption led to a huge disappointment and a silent fall into While XMPP still exist and is a very active community, it never Long quest to create a messenger, starting with Hangout (which wasįollowed by Allo, Duo. So they pulled the plugĪnd announced they would not be federated anymore. In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Ploum, in a piece titled “How to Kill a Decentralised Network (Such as the Fediverse)”: Sorry, but XMPP Was Doomed, Not Extinguished by Google ★ But that’s within another level of niche: people who don’t care that foldables are relatively fragile. I’m sure we’ll see several reports of broken Pixel Folds once theĮarlier today I described the market for foldables as a niche (people willing to spend nearly $2,000) within a niche (people willing to buy any phone that doesn’t support using a protective case) within a niche (people who want a foldable phone in the first place). Sale, you don’t have to look far to see reports of dead displays. That hasn’tīeen the case, though, and any time you see a foldable phone for The devices onto the market, everything will work out. Issues of flexible OLED displays, thinking that if they just shove Manufacturers keep wanting to brush off the significant durability Started growing upward across the display. Responding to touch, too, and an hour later, a white gradient The entire left half of the foldable display stopped Pixels of the Pixel Fold went dead first, forming a white line ofġ00 percent brightness pixels that blazed across the bottom of the The flexible OLED screen died after four days. This was the lightest possible usage of a Gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones areĮxpected to survive. It was neverĭropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it Screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. While I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the Ron Amadeo’s Pixel Fold Lasted Four Days ★
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