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Tim Bray Dec 22, 2022

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-net-070000858.html

Tl;dr: Fediverse roll-up already had mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud, now adds pawoo.net.

Oh really.

pawoo.net is widely de-federated because it’s full of lolicon. I just left mastodon.cloud because it was getting sketchy. Hey, now they’re all gonna have Web3 too.

#fediblock alert, obvs.

It’ll be interesting to see how the ecosystem reacts to to this sort of burgeoning EvilFedi.

“Take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit” is unfortunately not an available tactic.

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Gabriel Pettier

@timbray i think the only solution is to (socially, as it’s not technically enforceable) avoid allowing servers to grow big enough to be potential candidates for such a buyout, of course, a company could decide to host many server, or to buy many small servers for the same effect, but i feel like it would be easier to defend if there are many many small servers to begin with, rather than only a few dozens or even hundreds of large-ish ones.