@adnan @aral I don't think this will happen. Fediverse is a PITA but right now, I'm not seeing much motivation for corporate interests to lock out smaller players with the excuse of spam prevention, due to the broadcast nature of most of the stuff on the fediverse.
@cancel @adnan @aral
yes, I think that the story of Google+ (and perhaps also the more recent one involving Twitter & technoking) is incredibly inspiring when it comes to seeing what the big tech can and cannot do WRT social networks.
The thing with social networks is that they are made of people's relations and habits more than they are made of particular technologies.