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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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    • get on federated thing
    • use corporate brand recognition and raw capital to get lots of users onto your instance of the federated thing
    • lots and lots and lots of users
    • “realize” that most of your users are only talking to each other, and maybe less than 10% is happening over federation
      • (of course they are, you deployed all those resources to get as many users as possible)
      • feel free to make things hard for the rest of the network along the way by being generally unstable for federated instances, since you represent such a huge number of users the rest of the network will cater to your broken nonsense
    • leave federated network, citing “technical challenges” and aforementioned mostly-local-posting, causing everyone not on your instance to just mysteriously stop posting from the perspective of most users who aren’t keeping up with what seems like a bunch of nerd drama

    this is, in essence, what happened to XMPP with Google