How big tech could hijack and crush Mastodon:

I think the real danger for the Mastodon/greater Fediverse community is that, should Mastodon really become the “next Twitter”, it will catch the attention of the other FAANGs. And the way the Fediverse is structured currently, it appears highly vulnerable to the old Embrace/Extend/Extinguish playbook

Quite ironic that the author decided to post this on Hacker News of all places.