I saw a while back that facebook is opening a twitter competitor which will use the ActivityPub protocol, and thus will be able to federate with other fediverse instances, I also saw they invited some fediverse instance admins for an “off the records” meeting in their HQ.
Question is, what is the general stance on this? Because I despise facebook with every fiber of my being, and would very much like to NOT have facebook lurk around these parts, as I understand there is an option to de-federate them like what happened with the exploading heads instance.
I think this article has some interesting points, but if we are honest here, what killed XMPP was mobile phones with “unlimited texting” plans. And then Facebook generally became the preferred method for “deeper” online interaction soon after. I remember using Trillian as an XMPP client but by that time the writing was already on the wall. Pure Chat/messenger services just never really recovered in general.