Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins

Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by aidenn0 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:26PM (#33552768)

The danger isn't fediverse defederating with Google, it's Google defederating with the fediverse.

Look at what happened to jabber/gtalk...

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by zen21 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:38PM (#33556694)

Why would Google defederating be worse than how things are now? Gmail users are not currently on mastodon anyway and things are fine.

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by aidenn0 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:22PM (#33557292)

And RSS was fine before Google Reader came around.

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by zen21 on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:23AM (#33557577)

And was fine afterwards.

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by e61133e3 on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:25AM (#33560544)

it is still fine

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by KerrAvon on Sunday November 13, 2022 @11:58AM (#33584860)

Google Reader is actually a good example. RSS didn’t die, but the Google Reader death pushed a lot of people into Twitter for reading news.

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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by aidenn0 on Saturday November 12, 2022 @09:55AM (#33573619)

Let's assume for a moment that mastodon is growing still. If Google adds it to everybody with a Gmail account, then hardly anybody will sign up for a non-Google server. It's easy to imagine a world in which most people are accessing via Google's servers.

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