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How long until we have corporate instances in the Fediverse? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not willing to give them ideas so fast.

That's something that popped in my head as soon as I started in here, not so long ago.

But there's nothing to prevent that, right? I mean, Meta could very well create a meta instance on Lemmy or Kbin or Mastodon or in all of them, bring a bunch of users, sprinkle in some ads because why not.

Sure, they could be defederated from more restrictive insfances. In the bigger picture, every other instance could boycott them, but they would surely federate among themselves (Elon meets Mark, ugh). They also have all the computational power and would have no problem being the largest instances in the Fediverse.

Then what? Is that feasible? Probable? My utopian future about a free, descentralized Fediverse is a lie?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I can still access all of that content from kbin or lemmy, what's the problem? I get their content, but they can't serve me ads, change kbin's feed algorithm, or have control over anything outside their one instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, they could probably still serve ads disguised as content - just send it along with the "genuine" posts without differentiating. That said, at least I can block their content from showing in my feed if I want to.

I'm all for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yep. Just look at me over there in Reddit the last few days. Almost looks like I make money off of Lemmy.