As expected, no Google user bated an eye. In fact, none of them realised. At worst, some of their contacts became offline. That was all. But for the XMPP federation, it was like the majority of users suddenly disappeared. Even XMPP die hard fanatics, like your servitor, had to create Google accounts to keep contact with friends. Remember: for them, we were simply offline. It was our fault.
If this fediverse thing works like its advertised to, whatever meta does won’t have any effect on the rest of the network
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
EXACTLY!!