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I think the Fediverse model has a really strong advantage compared to past platforms. Corporations are always going to have a profit motive, and that will necessarily eventually make the user experience worse. With how easy it is to move things around in the Fediverse, there's a meaningfully lower risk of that since the lock-in factor is reduced. I'm sure we will see monetized corporate instances (see, Threads), but if that experience eventually gets intolerable, it'd be relatively easy for users to jump ship without drastically changing the experience.
It's not perfect, but we're in a better position I think.
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(Messaging from mastodon server) I think so too. Your posts may not follow, but the freedom to move from one server to another, and the freedom to follow posts and info from other servers means if threads wants me to join they'd need make the experience better than anywhere else, or I can leave and still follow anybody I was following before.
Okay see, this itself shows exactly what I'm saying. I'm on Kbin, you're on Mastodon, and we're talking on a Lemmy instance. This is genuinely stupid cool.