cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24088740

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.

  • 5dh@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    It’s part of the reason you don’t see the lemmy.world instance in the lemmy server browser.

    On join-lemmy.org you mean? I didn’t know that, but that’s great to see. Lemmy.world has become pretty big.

    • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
      131·
      3 months ago

      That’s correct. The amount of users defaulting to that instance was worrying the admins. They wanted more people to move to other servers to help de-centralize the platform and ensure lemmy.world doesn’t control the whole fediverse through sheer numbers.