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@Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary

What a market-driven initiative might do, whether they adopt or invent some other protocol stack, is bring major disruption to the . Or make it less relevant, side-tracking fedi.

Say a major company invests $100 million, creates a protocol stack and 2 well-productized apps with a smart business model behind it.

Suppose in short order they attract 10 million users. Regular folks. And they make good revenue. Attract other vendors, etc..

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smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)

@Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary

This technology base has now proven itself to be ready for more widespread adoption. Marketing teams are relentlessly driving it. An open source dev ecosystem of projects evolves around it. Not of the deeply caring, ethical fedi devs, mind you. More the kind of devs that hardly know what a License is, and of whom Github is full of.

Suddenly #Fediverse is on the sides. We'll exist, but may decline. Instead of open standards the alternative gets industry ones.

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Bob Mottram

@humanetech @Bernard @NGIZero @EC_NGI @dachary It is difficult to imagine that happening with a federated protocol which is an open standard. Targeted advertising couldn't happen in the same way.

There's a reason why web5 didn't just adopt AP with a plan to extend and extinguish.

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