Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.
Best thing we can hope for is a competitor to appear or something and then have a very split fediverse between instances, hence you cannot defederate without causing major harm
Reminds me a bit of how to deal with gangrene. Chop the leg at the ankle or the knee, drastic as it is, is better than lose the entire leg from the waist down, maybe some jewels included.
DING DING DING. Here's Facebook's playbook:
Best thing we can hope for is a competitor to appear or something and then have a very split fediverse between instances, hence you cannot defederate without causing major harm
Reminds me a bit of how to deal with gangrene. Chop the leg at the ankle or the knee, drastic as it is, is better than lose the entire leg from the waist down, maybe some jewels included.