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There's an interesting philosophical question: if we have a fediverse or open source ecosystem for communication that is deeply integrated into Big Tech, does that make the fediverse stronger, or does it neuter the impact of fediverse as a possible "infrastructure-level" competitor of communication and information sharing?


We can look back in time to see that, ultimately, Google's adoption of XMPP was bad for XMPP.


It was also bad for Google, as it cost a lot to build, was almost completely unused by their userbase, and resulted in a lot of inbound spam.




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