I’m old enough to have witnessed the early beginnings of the Internet in the 90s - and what’s happening now with the fediverse feels like coming back to its roots.

We may well find that the implosion of Twitter and Reddit - within 6 months of each other - is the beginning of the end for “big tech”. It’s unlikely that it will go away entirely but I do feel a seismic shift happening. I seriously hope that it’s not a false dawn.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Someone will try to monetize the fediverse. They may not be successful, but they'll try.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh 100%. The beauty is if they try in a way that is harmful to the fediverse at large they will get defederated in a heartbeat.

[–] Palteos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I moved to Lemmy and learned about how federated sites like this work I realized how utterly impossible for something like what's happening to Reddit to happen. The biggest obstacle to Reddit users migrating right now is the fact that there's no equivalently sized community to move to.

That would never be the case here. In addition to defederating like you mentioned, users not in the instance in question could easily set up an alternative community, as easy as it would be to open a new sub. Users in the instance in question could easily migrate to another instance. No need to find an alternative platform, no need to make a new account (in most cases), and no need to worry about a new community being active and well established.

While I see downsides to the fediverse, I see some major upsides, especially in the wake of Reddit's implosion.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As long as 1 server doesn't become too dominant. At least, that's how I understand it.

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