Suggestion for Mastodon (to prevent eventual gMastodon instance): cap instance size at 100 - 1,000 account by default. Make it a social contract for instances not to federate with instances greater than that limit.

Or, a few years from now, say hello to “gMastodon”. (See history of email and the Web for a lesson in the future.)

That said, we might already be on that path.

#economiesOfScale #networkEffects #powerDifferentials #ventureCapital

@aral Hm, I've wondered too what we do when "google.social" launches on a forked/modified, mastodon-like platform, or even their own #activitypub implementation with google extensions. the #powerdifferential will be heavily weighted towards the expectation that independent servers will implement google's extensions

also #corporatesurveillance

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@sivy @aral I'm heavily on the side of "didn't need 'em before, don't need 'em now, fuck off corpers we ain't federating with you"

@troubleMoney @aral sure, I get that. And honestly, social (non-technical) contracts may be all we have to fight it. But the out-sized effect the BigCos have in the social software arena mean we have to have a plan of some kind

#activitypub #corporatefediverse

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