I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
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@feditips I understand your concerns, but Mastodon has the right to run its own public server, and it has the right to offer the use of that server to the users of its primary software product. True, a predominant server on the Fediverse could be in danger of being acquired by a corporation and be subject to the hegemony of the rest of the web, but they can't own the Fediverse, and that is by design. As long as they offer alternative servers (they do), I am cautiously okay with it.