How would that limit anything? If the company changes their mind - like Twitter did with a lot of things, especially the API access - they just change the code and make your instance incompatible.
I mean, you’ve always got that risk. Even on Mastodon, a big instance can kill smaller ones by defederating with them. Or Mastodon.social could just decide to implement extensions that are hard for other instances to use.
How would that limit anything? If the company changes their mind - like Twitter did with a lot of things, especially the API access - they just change the code and make your instance incompatible.
I mean, you’ve always got that risk. Even on Mastodon, a big instance can kill smaller ones by defederating with them. Or Mastodon.social could just decide to implement extensions that are hard for other instances to use.