• Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    766·
    10 days ago

    It can be bought by a billionaire. I think we need to be careful thinking this risk doesn’t exist.

    “We can just make another instance” - this won’t happen like people think it will. If all the content is on Lemmy.world and it gets bought, then people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else, just like people are hesitant to leave Reddit now.

    • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      23·
      10 days ago

      Even if people running instances are saints, a lot of money can not only buy, but bully them into submission. Bullshit lawsuits is one way to do so before they are financially crippled. We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance.

      • Hejej@lemmy.mlEnglish
        131·
        9 days ago

        “We are safeguarded only by our irrelevance” it’s not just Lemmy. I’m thinking about the trans movement that progressed quietly without fanfare and the moment it was no longer “irrelevant “ for the majority it started getting massive pushback. Shocking how little it took to go from irrelevant to a danger to society.

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          9 days ago

          same is for Linux.

          everybody keeps advocating for linux; but i’m not a big fan of it. I’m worried that it will bring a ton of bullshit to the linux platform, and i don’t like that.

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
      201·
      10 days ago

      Why won’t it? I think user accounts need federation as well, but switching hosts isn’t hard. Lemmy.ca went down a little while ago due to a power supply breaking. The admin has been great about it, moving away from the provider that took a day to fix the issue. But during the downtime I was able to use an account I has already set up on a different instance.

      When reddit is down, it was really down. When a lemmy instance is down you can just use another. Don’t get tied into just one host.

      • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 days ago

        It’s easy to say “don’t get tied down”, but people do. People like their online personas, their handles, their comment and post history. It’s a mixture of sunk-cost fallacy and FOMO. Reddit knows this, it’s why they still have 2000x as many monthly users as Lemmy.

        This will be the same here: if a billionaire buys the biggest instance, yeah cool everyone can defederate, but then all the historical content is gone, most of the users are gone unless they move to you or an instance still federated to you, and you essentially alienate yourself.

    • Microw@lemm.ee
      141·
      9 days ago

      Instances can be bought by billionaires. The software can’t. And I don’t think many billionaires would buy a website running a software that they cant control tbh

      • Gladaed@feddit.org
        7·
        9 days ago

        The software can, but the price is likely too high. In the end money can pressure anyone to do virtually anything. Having 100 lifetimes of productive work pressuring you to do something cannot just be ignored.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
      9·
      9 days ago

      people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else

      It is however much easier to move between fediverse instances than it is to move from commercial social media to the fediverse. Once you’re on the fediverse, moving is easier.

      • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
        5·
        9 days ago

        Also the communities are run by people who actually give a shit about FOSS and decentralization

      • zyberteq @lemmy.world
        5·
        9 days ago

        I’m on lemmy.world through Boost, but have lots of communities from fediverse and other Lemmy’s and whatnot (still learning how it all works).

        What is wrong with lemmy.world and what do you recommend?

        • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          10·
          9 days ago

          Be careful with letting someone else guide you in this way. Everyone has individual tastes.

          I’m on dbzer0, which is an instance for pirates and anarchists. But I found it by having an account on a random instance and browsing lemmy for a long time before choosing to move here.

          Just don’t get too attached to where your account is, feel out the fediverse, and then you can decide.

          • zyberteq @lemmy.world
            2·
            9 days ago

            I’ll try to keep that in my mind. So far it feels like the “local” and “all” selections in Boost, which I guess come from world, are not very varied. Reddits’ r/all is just everything, which is great. It gives you a very varied, unfiltered (seemingly) feed

            • Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              9 days ago

              Local will just show content from the instance you’re logged into. In your case it’s lemmy.world. All means content from world and instances federated with world. All is everything, but all of lemmy is still tiny compared to reddit so it just doesn’t move that fast. I usually sort by active and that keeps things fresh. “Active last x hours” also works nicely.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
          6·
          9 days ago

          Honestly the only thing wrong with world is it blocks db0’s piracy community. Beyond that it’s pretty inoffensive to the general fediverse.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          9 days ago

          Similar rules to Reddit. You can get busted for saying “eat the rich” because it’s supposedly a call for violence.

    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 days ago

      A instance or two can be bought yes, but many if the popular subs are distributed all over.

      And if enshitification hits the biggest instances it will bleed users because it’s so easy to switch instances

  • not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    332·
    9 days ago

    y’all don’t have to boycot every american, just their economy, so if a based person hosts a lemmy server that helps the open free internet and should not be boycotted

  • civil_drive@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    9 days ago

    Lemmy reminds me of Reddit when I first joined more than a decade ago. I just hope it doesn’t go to shit like Reddit has the last few years.

    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
      9·
      9 days ago

      I hope it won’t but I won’t be surprised if it does. The internet itself is decentralized, and that wasn’t enough.

    • xye@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      My oldest Reddit account was just one year shy of being able to vote (just rolled over to 17) and it stung a little to hit that delete button yesterday. Lemmy very much reminds me of the days when I joined. However, users here frequently point out not having any niche subs on Lemmy - that was exactly what we had to contend with on Reddit. Except making a sub became competitive and you had a lot of speculative sub creation etc. It was exciting because it was new, but that isn’t the case now. The attitude I see missing on Lemmy then is this desire to create communities, and instead lament they don’t exist. Be the change you want to see everyone.

  • LUC@lemm.ee
    20·
    10 days ago

    stupid question, but anyway: does it have admins? so is Lemmy less censored than Reddit?

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      461·
      10 days ago

      Every instance has an admin. They are listed at the bottom of the sidebar of the instance.

      The good thing is that every team of admins can manage their instance and the communities hosted as they want.

      So if an admin wants to censor a certain topic on their instance, people will just move the community to another instance that would accept it.

      A good example if !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which cannot be accessed from lemmy.world.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      231·
      10 days ago

      Lemmy has admins in the way that email providers do.

      Another example: my instance blocks porn. Those who agree with this policy may enjoy this instance, but it doesn’t impose its rules on anyone using other instances who can access that content freely.

      It’s kind of like email. They are all connected, but the rules are set by your provider and those who are willing to communicate with you. There is no one person who can set the rules for everyone.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
      17·
      8 days ago

      It’s pretty close to Reddit, but it’s like a whole bunch of smaller Reddits that share posts between each other. The individual Reddits (instances) are generally grouped by hobby, political affiliation, or geographical location, but not always.

      You can tell what instance something or someone is from by looking at their name or title. E.g. I’m from lemmy.zip, you can see it after my user name.

      The reason that it can’t be bought by a billionaire is that even if one instance is bought out, compromised etc, it can just be removed from the group at large, and it continues like nothing happened. I’m simplifying a bit but I hope you get the general idea.

    • epicstove@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      Instead of 1 big website like reddit, there’s a bunch of smaller websites like reddit. These sites are united in a way as users from one site can view, comment on, etc on other sites.

      Something similar is Email. Even if you made your email address with Google to have @gmail.com at the end of your email address you can still send and receive emails from anyone.

  • kingshrubb@lemmy.ml
    10·
    9 days ago

    Is the Sync app no longer being updated/maintained/developed? I am having problems with it. Upvotes/downvotes are no longer being showed. Shame because it is my fav Lemmy app.

    • The_Ferry@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      Honestly same, i feel like pressing the random buttons sometimes causes it to just not want to load, especially if what its loading is videos/gifs

    • Kiliyukuxima@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      I had a sync sub but since it got abandoned I just cancelled it. Most images or videos wouldn’t load, as well as some comments or some random shit. Using voyager now and won’t look back. It’s much better since the first time I tried it

      • Serpent@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 days ago

        I don’t know if you used to use Sync for Reddit but it was pretty normal for him to go away for a while and then come back with a big update. I’m just assuming that’s what is happening at the moment.