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Former #Twitter engineer @blaine:

“'Yeah, I think it’s inevitable. We’ve seen a similar story before — the phone networks used to be monopolies,' he said, adding that government regulation forced them to open up. He foresees a similar situation happening with social media. 'My hope is that with the growth of Mastodon, eventually Twitter [will] be mandated to federate.'”

https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/