People over profits is the real magic of fedi
We're building the future
No shareholders. Just people.
Yeah, we'll probably see monetization and corporate interests join the fedi, and that's okay because the power of the protocol lies in choice
And the best fediverse platforms are open source and mostly good stewards of AP interop
Y'all made this happen, us devs can only take so much credit
Threads & Bluesky hope to subsume the fediverse so exercise caution with "big, pushy neighbors trying to take over your front yard", as the saying goes.
@Npars01 risk is probably that this evoles as e-mail has. Officially has always been a bunch of open protocols, but nowadays it is mostly a oligopoly (with Google Mail and Microsoft Exchange/Outlook as the dominant platforms) and it is very difficult to run your own server due to all extensions "against spam and scams" (meaning that most of your mails are going to silently be filtered without even ending in the Spam folder).
I hope the Fediverse better resists such EEE.