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Thu, 09 Mar 2023 02:59:09 +0100

DaniEhm@mas.to

@atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews We just block them. Corps are going to try to monetize budding Fediverse so expect this. Btw they have all the $$$ in the world.

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:40:46 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Dani ? @Chris Trottier @Fediverse News I bet you that everyone at #GAFAM had their legal departments check whether it's possible to buy out the whole #Fediverse, all instances included. When that failed, at least all of #Mastodon, all instances included. When that failed, too, at least Mastodon gGmbH, only to learn that all that'd buy them would be two out of countless instances, but not the IP rights on the whole project.

I also bet you that #Google is working on its own corporate, commercial, proprietary, closed-source, centralised Fediverse silo project right now, and that they'll pump a few billion dollars into advertising it as "Mastodon, but easier to use and more like Twitter." And I bet you that millions will readily jump ships.

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:26:59 +0100

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Dan Jacob @Fediverse News It'd be a continuation of the running joke of #Google being Google. I just forgot to also bet you that they'd shut it down again after less than five years. But I expect them to try before someone else does, even if it's too late to successfully claim they've invented the very concept.

The blatant #Diaspora ripoff #GooglePlus wasn't built to last. #GoogleTalk wasn't either, especially not its federation with the rest of #XMPP.

#GoogleMail will last, also because I guess most people think e-mail = Gmail. And I think too many Android phones are firmly tied to the #GoogleCloud to make it easy to axe it. Not to mention that both are too tempting to data-harvest.