Eugen Rochko
GradientU0
Bruce Heerssen 
@GradientU0 @Gargron @mosseri
I don't think so. Not this time. Meta has no control over the fediverse, and they can't by design. If we don't like what they're doing, we can shut them out, and there's nothing they can do about it.
Mastodon, et al, may never grow as big, but we can't be stopped.
anomalocaris@bruce @GradientU0 @Gargron XMPP, RSS and IMAP are all similarly uncontrollable, but they all got Embraced, Extended and Extinguished and now they're all shadows of their former selves.
@anomalocaris @GradientU0 @Gargron
I get what you're saying, but I use RSS and IMAP all day, every day, and so do millions of other people. Even if ActivityPub and its various implementations become eclipsed by the Metas of the world, it will still exist, and people like me (and hopefully you) will use them.
I do hope for more, though, so perhaps that paints a rose colored tint on my glasses.
@bruce Same here, every day - but they are dying out where they were once ubiquitous. RSS feeds get a little harder to find every day; IMAP is getting turned off as an option by more and more providers (Microsoft being the worst offender here - they'll flip the switch for all their customers one of these days and that'll be the deathstroke). XMPP is also still around, but around the margins, nerds only.
I hope for more too and will never cross over to the corporate networks - Fedi and ActivityPub could be huge, they could be the open and flexible way that people connect to each other over the Internet for the foreseeable future - but they could also be an ember, slowly dying out after everyone gets pulled into Threads and then, some years later, has to choose between a supercharged (and by that time proprietary) zuckerverse or a drained, feature poor fedi maintained by a few diehards.