"Fediverse in toto is far too puny to be monetizable, it’s ludicrous to speak of billionaire buyouts of a thing that is literally 0.1% of Xitter’s current size. "
It's not just billionaires, it's also smaller scammy companies that take over open projects and start it with privacy-busting trackers etc. This has happened countless times and caused so many forks to happen.
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