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1. JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 22:48:43 EST JordiGH

   People are always comparing the fediverse with email. Remember webmail in the 90s? We had Hotmail, Mailcity, Rocketmail, and a bunch of others. Now we have Gmail by default.

   I wonder if Masto or any other part of the fediverse goes mainstream, would one instance would eat up all the others? People seem to always congegrate back into centralisation. Internet herd behaviour..

   1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 02:56:39 EST Bob Mottram

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      @jordigh The way I think big companies might try to disrupt the fediverse would be to run their own instance and then provide some tangible reason for users to join - such as paying them to have ads appended to their posts or implementing something like a basic income for all users supported by ads in the stream. Once they gained critical mass they could then embrace and extinguish the protocol, as they did with xmpp.
   2. lostinlight (lightone@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 12:37:37 EST lostinlight

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      @JordiGH For that reason I wish administrators of densely populated instances closed registrations in due time (3000-5000 users?) Obviously, there are fewer admins in the world than non-admins, so tiny instances (<100), while being healthier for federation, are still not feasible for now. But there're already a couple of projects helping to have one's own server with none-to-little technical skills, so the future might be bright (?)