ŚéáńInteresting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.
Sven Slootweg@fiercemilder By and large, this is only a risk from the "everybody should use Mastodon" perspective, though. From the "fostering a safe community" perspective, the problem is very quickly solved with a defed.
@fiercemilder (A lot of the commenters in that thread also seem to be under the mistaken assumption that the success condition for the fediverse is "universal adoption")
Shine@joepie91 @fiercemilder Exactly my thought. If they want to play with ActivityPub, no one can prevent it. But the first thing every reasonable instance should (and all I know also would) do is to defederate, instead of attempting to catch up with their features. E/e/e worked well with XMPP, because we left the decision to defederate on them, and they did it only after securing dominance. That won't happen if we make our move first.