I’m in the defederate-with-all-corporations camp. I perceive the goal to be maintaining our own independent identity here as much as possible until our independent Fediverse userbase gets into the millions, at which point we will be large enough to maintain relevance even in the face of heavy-handed competition.

It is theoretically possible for them to go ActivityPub, but I rather doubt they will any time soon. Their strategy towards us so far seems to be to pretend we don’t exist, which isn’t working terribly well so far, but they’re invested I guess…?

I expect Zuck to be a little more planned in his dealing with us. Us growing doesn’t hurt him, so long as it doesn’t happen at his expense. If it does, either some marketing and algorithm tweaks could fix that. If we grow too large and become potentially able to compete with him, he can always purchase individual large Instances from their owners. That is neither illegal nor even unethical.

edit: Forgot this was about reddit at the end there. I think they’re going to slowly dwindle, unless they get someone more visionary in there.