I also appreciated the presentation by @Peter Cottle. I think that big players like Meta embracing the fediverse can be a very good thing. It brings in a lot of people to the fediverse, which will attract more independents to the fediverse. Once you get enough people on the fediverse, the network effect takes over. After all, people tend to join networks that other people are already on.

I think Meta sees the writing on the wall. Social is going to go the same way as email. A federated network. Gmail can't defederated from the rest of the email servers without making itself irrelevant. At some point the decentralized social is going to be that way too.

It should be interesting to see how Meta monetizes Threads. Ads would only work for their own users. Are they going to offer additional services, like cloud storage, custom profiles, e-commerce options, etc.? They may have to come up with some new ways to produce revenue.

Either way, I look forward to seeing what happens.

CC: @Chris Messina @Emelia 👸🏻