Bastian AllgeierThe success of Mastodon and the Fediverse is not the success of a new platform. It’s a potentially groundbreaking change for the internet. No traditional social media platform will be able to compete with this anymore once the network effects kick in here. And it’s looking very good at the moment.
Robin Bairn@bastianallgeier The vulnerability I see to that is along the lines of embrace, extend, extinguish. If someone comes along and creates a popular instance with extra features and gets a large enough share of users they could gain a dominant position.