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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not really. It's just an aside for the bean-counters.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

... but you know, it's not difficult to think of possibilities. They could have a shiny new line of business providing hosting, spam detection, moderation, and other services for whatever new and improved flavour of fedi instances they can create in accordance with all the principles they used to talk about. They could use their marketing team, their money and connections, to become the provider of choice for corporations, governments, and NGOs who don't yet realize that they need their own instance.

Would've been worth a try. Instead, after so much fanfare, they ran a small mastodon instance for a little while and then cancelled the project. I suppose it's likely that the same kind of fate will befall the new ad tracking stuff before too long.