submitted 1 week ago by 5dh@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

There are quite a few communities outside of LW and ml:

Most of the instances are not going to defederate from LW, but if they were, the remaining ones would still survive

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I certainly hope so; I'm on Wolrd, and most of my favorite communities are located on World, but I often find the admins' decision questionable, and I have just as many reservations about ml. I hope I could put together a good group of communities without either instance, but sometimes it feels like they're necessary to a good Lemmy experience. But either way, I think you're right, most instances won't defederate.