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A small success for the Fediverse ? What do you think ?

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[–] anova@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I genuinely never thought I'd see the day that Google (at least, some facet of it?) would find itself in the fediverse.

I remember reading a few days ago about how some instances were defederating with others who were hosting car companies. I wonder how long it'll take people to do that with tech companies as well. I'm not entirely sure how to feel about it but I definitely don't think I'd want to share an instance with Google. If we were to imagine a world in which Google decided to go all in and set up a bigger social operation on Mastodon.social, how long would it take them to start influencing the instance's politics? What would the ramifications of that be for my instance that federates with Mastodon.social, if any?

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Remember when Google Talk was federated XMPP? Maybe we'll have a second chance.

[–] joeldebruijn@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 years ago

@kevincox @anova
I think brands should set up their own instances to host their respective accounts for general webcare, products, conferences and news etc

Fans can follow according their liking.
I on the other hand can block them according my not - liking.