Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541

I think the real danger for the Mastodon/greater Fediverse community is that, sh... | Hacker News

@fiercemilder @mcollina Essentially, Google already did this with XMPP. Really, XMPP should have been what launched fediverse. Client-server protocol. Server-to-server protocol. Active standards management. Healthy open source ecosystem. The difference now is the size of the community who cares about this. We were few. ActivityPub has many.