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

• aidenn0 4y ago
  And RSS was fine before Google Reader came around.
  • zen21 4y ago
    And was fine afterwards.
    • e61133e3 4y ago
      it is still fine
      • KerrAvon 4y ago
        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.
• aidenn0 4y ago
  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.