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@pinkdogfan

Sure, servers can choose to block other servers.

Server owners can run in a completely isolated mode if they want. (It even notes this as a possibility in the Masto video.)

But once people are used to being able to talk to different servers, it becomes difficult to put the genie back in the bottle.

Google hasn't dared stop Gmail working with other email providers for example.

You're right that there are always dangers, but a federated structure minimises them.

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Pink Dog Fan

@feditips So you think of a Fediverse grew to be as dominate as Twitter and suddenly shut off access to all smaller ones the users would leave? Treat this for what it is, tell people they yes a Twitter powerful Fediverse could exist and for a time would be dominate, but this open source concept means a new challenger could chip away if they had a good idea.

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