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Lemmy is CEO-proof. After Digg, Reddit and Twitter, that term should be a thing (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

You’re posting this on lemmy.world. The owner of this instance, the biggest new instance, is literally building out a business of instance hosting.

If this goes well, and his business grows, it will have chief executives.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

But there will be other instances. If this one does something stupid, then we go to another one and miss almost nothing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's a bit like saying "Yeah so we don't care what reddit does, because you can always go somewhere else"

It's the biggest instance, so it's where most of the community and content would be etc etc. Just like what happened with beehaw could happen to world as well. This is only true for a mature decentralized federated ecosystem with a lot of redundant communities so that if one goes down you can easily consume the same content from a different instence. Is that the case now? I would say no, so it's even less leader-proof.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is perfectly fine with beehaw defederating.

There is certainly the risk of a single instance dominating. But even now there are a few significant instances and losing beehaw didn't ruin anything.