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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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This blog post by Ploum, who was part of the original XMPP efforts long ago, describes how Google killed one great federated service, which shows why the Fediverse must not give Meta the chance

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[–] owenfromcanada 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, larger instances have a sense of stability about them, whether that's warranted or not.

What might help is some sort of creed or manifesto that smaller instances can jointly promote, that would include "I won't defederate for petty reasons," "I won't sell out to corporate," etc. Might give people more confidence in smaller instances, and help foster a larger sense of community while keeping resources spread out.