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Look at browsers. We could argue that Google getting into that area would not take away from other browsers. Except that reality has been different. Google is now a heavyweight in standards-organisations and they have practically zero competition. The "competition" is the same engine in different themes. Oh and Firefox which has a tiny market share now.
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@darius  @claudius @tchambers @anildash I am aware of all of this history I am taking it entirely into account when I make the statements I do. @darius what I'm trying to say: if any of the behemoth players come to the Fediverse, they will come with intentions that are almost certainly not aligned with the intentions of the Fediverse. And they will not play by "our" rules. This will be on uneven, skewed territory where one side has a billion dollar war chest and a centralised top-down vision. The other side has a few small teams of developers doing this mostly in their spare time. |
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Also with Facebook and XMPP, we saw a more problematic thing that applies to networks: when Facebook cut XMPP connections, the reaction was not "oh well, Facebook is wrong here" the reaction was "get off your tiny service nobody ever heard of and just join Facebook where everyone else is".
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