[laurex]

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?

[jayknight]

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

[sneak]

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.