I think their automated moderation systems would be just fine sitting before the activitypub interface and allowing or blocking incoming posts, so moderation probably wouldn't be a huge problem, it's just more stuff to moderate.
At that point the big thing would be selling users on a better UX to justify the advertising and tracking. With a capital on-hand, dedicated people working on it, and all the other perks of being a big corp, I think they could make the argument successfully for a lot of customers. It wouldn't be unprecedented.
The big problem is that if they succeed, then it's probable they come in and break everyone else's toys.
One thing I was thinking about though is that federation doesn't really make much sense for these companies if you believe their numbers. The Fediverse has about 6M users, and many of those users are unplatformable for a corporation. Why reach out to such a tiny number of users if you're claiming to have 100M users on your platform aline?
At that point the big thing would be selling users on a better UX to justify the advertising and tracking. With a capital on-hand, dedicated people working on it, and all the other perks of being a big corp, I think they could make the argument successfully for a lot of customers. It wouldn't be unprecedented.
The big problem is that if they succeed, then it's probable they come in and break everyone else's toys.
One thing I was thinking about though is that federation doesn't really make much sense for these companies if you believe their numbers. The Fediverse has about 6M users, and many of those users are unplatformable for a corporation. Why reach out to such a tiny number of users if you're claiming to have 100M users on your platform aline?
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