That's pretty telling.
drwho
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"Gentlebeings?"
This is a big nothingburger because it doesn't have a cute name, a marketing campaign, or a silly logo. /s
How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?
Yinz shut your boxen down?
Google pulled it off with GChat. All told, those of us who run our own XMPP servers aren't even a rounding error when compared to everybody who uses Google Chat, FB Chat, Slack...
Interoperate with it. Add proprietary extensions faster than other implementations can keep up with (at least two orders of mag). Render software that isn't yours unusable by suddenly cutting over to something else internally; let connection attempts continue for a while to frustrate users while simultaneously releasing your own. Then cut away all points where legacy connection attempts could be done.
I'm not seeing a problem here.
Power, mostly. And testing the strategies they want to use at home to refine and perfect them.
It's not that. It's not getting complacent by eliding the semantics of what you're doing. It's being consciously aware that you're doing something that could possibly fuck stuff up.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
And make sure they hear about it in such a way that it seems interesting. The fediverse doesn't use any basic marketing plan techniques, and enough people are conditioned to them (after a lifetime of growing up surrounded by advertising on television and in their spaces) that anything which doesn't fit that template scoots right by.
ObXKCD.