@sab @mlabowicz they slowly infiltrate standards boards, decision making committees, gradually as features that sounds great, and nobody realizes until years later that the changes oblige other instances do implement something to keep up and interoperate which leaves them wide open to something like a copyright infringement suit, which the adversary uses to get them all shut down.

@sab @mlabowicz In some office somewhere, someone is being assigned a budget of tens of millions to bring this about, or something like it. Their retirement plans hinge on it, and they absolutely will not stop, ever, until the fediverse as we know it is dead.

@tartley If they manage to add features and trick people into joining their instances before locking them in, wouldn't it be easier to just launch services with said features and trick people into using their services right away? At which point it's just the status quo?

For me, email seems a better comparison (even though everybody's tired of it). Gmail might be monopolistic and awful, but nothing done by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or anyone else managed to destroy it.