Embrace, extend, extinguish. Only proven way to destroy decentralized, free, open source solutions.

First stage embrace might not even be malicious, but with corporations it will eventually lead to someone thinking: how can we monetize our position. It is just nature how business works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Please: All read this piece about how “Embrace, extend and destroy” can destroy a federated network. It happened before and they certainly will try to do it with the fediverse.

Big corpos don’t want to take it over, they want it gone.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html