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TwilightVulpine , 3 months ago How would they even extinguish a whole ecosystem of independent instances? What does that even look like? They could very well make some feature or requirement and demand that every single ActivityPub instance uses their version to remain compatible... ...and instance hosts can just say no, fork it and keep going unbothered. Even buying up some big Lemmies and Mastodons is not going to get them the whole Fediverse.
How would they even extinguish a whole ecosystem of independent instances? What does that even look like?
They could very well make some feature or requirement and demand that every single ActivityPub instance uses their version to remain compatible...
...and instance hosts can just say no, fork it and keep going unbothered.
Even buying up some big Lemmies and Mastodons is not going to get them the whole Fediverse.