Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?

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    391 year ago

    The only viable way to control the Fediverse is an embrace, extend, and extinguish approach.

    • Join the Fediverse
    • Pour a ton of money and manpower on your instance so most people migrate to it because it works better.
    • Reach critical mass and defederate the others.
    • Proceed to screw your users.

    Anything less and you become a Fediverse backwater instead of a monopoly.