I’ve got some mixed feelings about this. on the one hand yay for more Fediverse recognition! on the other hand, once companies enter the 'verse and gather users, grow their servers to the scale not possible for independent instance admins due to the costs, and become dominant players, what’s stopping them from cutting their ties to the rest of the Fediverse and taking their userbase away? remember when GTalk and Facebook Messenger were both XMPP-compatible? I’ve seen some instances pledging to not federate with any future instances managed by Google, Facebook and the like in the future for that reason.
Signup is via a Vivaldi dot net account portal not the instance, so it potentially grows their audience. Who knows if it’ll work out long term or where it goes but an interesting development.
Good points all around, ol’ chap. You made me think that those corporate instances might have unique features enabled by proprietary modules and bots + unlimited storage for attached media. To counter that, I suppose Mastodon should make a clause in their license prohibiting to run their software for profit
I’ve got some mixed feelings about this. on the one hand yay for more Fediverse recognition! on the other hand, once companies enter the 'verse and gather users, grow their servers to the scale not possible for independent instance admins due to the costs, and become dominant players, what’s stopping them from cutting their ties to the rest of the Fediverse and taking their userbase away? remember when GTalk and Facebook Messenger were both XMPP-compatible? I’ve seen some instances pledging to not federate with any future instances managed by Google, Facebook and the like in the future for that reason.
That will happen. Be ready.
Signup is via a Vivaldi dot net account portal not the instance, so it potentially grows their audience. Who knows if it’ll work out long term or where it goes but an interesting development.
Registering on defederated non-intranet instance just to receive news about only X company seems kinda silly tho
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Good points all around, ol’ chap. You made me think that those corporate instances might have unique features enabled by proprietary modules and bots + unlimited storage for attached media. To counter that, I suppose Mastodon should make a clause in their license prohibiting to run their software for profit