"What if Google starts their own Google-branded Fediverse instance?"
They already did.
Google Buzz used OStatus as part of its protocol stack.
OStatus later evolved into ActivityPub.
As for Google Buzz? Like most Google social media projects, it died -- and was replaced by Google+.
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2023-04-25 23:35:25
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