@tokyo_0 Yeah, the old slip some ads in the RSS feed trick. I do think that they will try to throw their weight around as the largest server in the fediverse and try to get other servers to agree to putting ads in the feed for a cut of the profits. I also think they'll try to have ads (or at least some mechanism that would enable ads) put into the AP spec.
I don't think they'll do this right away, because it's going to be a lot harder to get folks to defederate after a while.
@tokyo_0 I would not be surprised if they offered servers an improved frontend to Mastodon that was fully instrumented with analytics and ads.