Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way?

Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 month ago

    There’s some potential to it, but as threads is one of the most defederated instance, there’s hope that it’ll at worst go something like this:

    1. Instance gets big and popular.
    2. People running the instance get greedy and put ads on their platform.
    3. People slowly start to leave the instance.
    4. Other instances start to defederate them.
    5. 3 and 4 becomes so bad, the instance at best becomes an undead one, at worst it completely disappears.