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Elias Mårtenson

@Gargron Similar to how email is being coopted by Google, I can see a situation where some major company creates a Fediverse server that is so good that everybody uses it. Then they'll turn off federation and we're back to where we were before.

Google already did it with XMPP.

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TrechNex

@loke @Gargron the good thing is that people are wise to that, so they can defederate from or silence such a server.

In fact, given Google's moderation policies would probably be similar to Purism's, I suspect even if they aren't wise to that the incentives would be skewed towards defederading. 😂

It can't be the best option if joining that server only shows you other people on the same server via a custom app and a tiny subset of the rest of the fediverse.

Björn Lindström

@loke @Gargron It's a great opportunity for people to *yet again* see that social media can be done differently. :-)

RiderExMachina

@loke
I learned that this is already being done by the Japanese website Pixiv.

That would be like if DeviantArt from 2006 made their own Mast instance and didn't federate

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