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I'm not here because Lemmy is a better alternative (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm here because it's eventually going to be the better alternative.

FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hosting costs are going to bite everyone in the ass. That's the opportunity for corporations to step in and slowly fuck things up. So right now, if you look at the instances, there are a lot of topic overlap, like gaming. Now imagine down the road that say, Steam hosts their own gaming instance. People flock to it as a centralized discussion opportunity. We could easily end up back to a very corporate controlled situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm okay with the existence of the corporate run server in your example so long as alternatives remain available and that corporate server can't start requesting removal of "competition."

Some amount of centralization isn't bad, so long as people can still choose to be elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A corporate run Lemmy server can remove competition by simply choosing not to federate with any other instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But that would be fine, wouldn't it? Then they wouldn't show up elsewhere, they would basically be using lemmy as a template to make a standalone website. If they want the general audience, they would have to create a general experience that is better than being connected to all the other servers, and that would be a lot of work.

But maybe I've misunderstood it, because I'm new to all this.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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