Post #2275037

@max@toet.dnzm.nl @ernie@writing.exchange @fiercemilder@mastodon.ie I don't think they don't really need to extend or extinguish Mastodon in the same way don't need to with email either. Gmail simply offered a killer feature (1 GB mailboxes!) that drew everyone to their platform and they've been harvesting metadata ever since. Same with Mastodon if Google were to run an instance: they can get data from the network, even from people who are not on their instance. Unlike email though, Google's instances can be banned off the network without much cost to the rest of the world