@fiercemilder my honest take on it is maybe 5 or 6 years ago this could of happpened but I think now we are pretty safe. The biggest reason I say this is while they could add centeralized features like verifications, a discover algorithm and more. I overall think most Mastodon client have a solid user experience, and on top of that I feel like there isn’t a ton of features they could add

@fiercemilder like when you look at social media now a days. It’s all just a TikTok clone with a slightly different UI. We kinda struck gold years ago. I think any company could clone Mastodon but it’s federation that matters in mastodons case. Which eliminating that at some point would kill off that platform really quickly.

@fiercemilder I think when messaging apps were still maturing, it was much easier to do this, since at that point no one fully knew what they wanted. Also adding a reccmenations algorithm/trending would likely turn googles instance into twitter.