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Every single Lemmy instance could theoretically be doomed to repeat Reddit's path. Including the flagship instance, lemmy.ml. Theoretically.
However, once said instance is going downhill, people would be far less affected. Because only a fraction of the users and communities will be in that instance; most of them will be elsewhere. And since the instances work under the same protocol, it would be way easier to move the info elsewhere too.
And the admins of those instances know it. That discourages them to be abusive towards their own users, because unlike the Reddit admins they can't rely on people coming back.
That's the beauty of the Fediverse. We aren't putting all our eggs inside the same basket, but even then we can make a tasty omelette together with all of them.
I think there needs to be a way to migrate accounts easily to another instance in this case. If im on Lemmy.world and they mess up so I want to use Beehaw or something then (it looks like?) I have to make a new account essentially (I could be wrong on that im still figuring this out)
Currently this is correct. Account migration is a thing that is technically possible, they just have to implement it. However, I don't think you would lose much anyway? Your username would be available on the other instances and yeah your posts are not under the exact account but you're not exactly building a YouTube channel here.
That's the way I see it as well. Like a Hydra, you can cut one of its head, but another instance will take its place.