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Site Reliability Engineer by day; writer, coder, dreamer by night. Chaotic good rogue :)

[[Flancia]] is a protopia, meaning roughly an incremental rational utopia. The double square brackets in the previous sentence and a lot of my posts are Agora links; you can resolve all such links by visiting the matching location in an Agora, e.g. https://anagora.org/flancia.

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  • @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%.




  • @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 :(