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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

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[–] LostCause@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow yeah the government, judging by your writing style even the US one, which side are they again on? Corporations or people (if they even distinguish)?
Let‘s check: https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained

Or as they put it, "economic elites and organized interest groups play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence."

The only reason they‘d have the fediverse on their radar is banning it in favour for some platform that lobbied them, like say Meta.

Anyway, luckily this is a global and decentralised thing and I for one like not waiting around for a government to think, decide and do anything and everything ever for me. I‘d rather find an instance admin who doesn‘t sell out at the first sign of a dollar.

If that takes me spinning up my own instances to contribute to that and have at least one place which doesn‘t sell out, I guess I will.