Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook’s imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92. This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.
Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958
Did the lemmyverse not know or just not care that much?
Google has a similar reputation and yet XMPPs half rotten corpse is still floating down the river
oh yeah, “killed by google” is definitely a thing. a real big thing.
Google has a reputation of creating Google versions of popular open source projects. Then, they abandon it when some corporate hack decides they’re bored with it. I’m amazed that Angular has lasted so long, but it does have some deep Googlification. Just recently, they’ve been moving off of the well supported bundler, webpack (which they didn’t give you any access to the configuration of), and onto their own custom made bundler just for Angular. It’ll probably result in faster, better builds but it’s unlikely to be useful for anything but Angular.
So while it’s nice that Google has made their internal tooling available, it’s still at the mercy of Google getting bored and moving on. I like the cohesiveness of it compared to React because it does come fully loaded, no configuration needed, but it’s also not as bullet proof from corporate meddling as React is. Fortunately, coin counters don’t seem to pay attention to build tools, otherwise I’m sure there’d be some PRO version for a major payment.