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Really, it should be kept more like an overplatform or protocol. Luckily, Lemmy has the roles of developers and content admins so separated and decentralized that it shouldn't become a corpo-danger from now on
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"Welcome, I'm the CEO of email!"
Really, it should be kept more like an overplatform or protocol. Luckily, Lemmy has the roles of developers and content admins so separated and decentralized that it shouldn't become a corpo-danger from now on
i hope it stays that way. i'm sick of these ceos and their garbage :/
In the Fediverse there are no Zuckerbergs, Musks, Dorseys, Huffmans etc.
There is ALWAYS the possibility to enshittify anything. Meta is trying to infiltrate Mastodon already.
CEO proof is a good reason to describe why I want my podcasts to come via an RSS feed instead of depending on an all-in-one app. I've often said things about open gardens and interoperable services, but that preaches to the choir.
"CEO Proof" really sells it to a non technical user.
I don’t think it’s necessary “CEO proof” but it is definitely a bit better positioned to avoid the pitfalls that Twitter and Reddit have experienced. Hence the reason I am here. But there’s nothing stopping a for-profit corporation from buying out the owner of a large instance (or multiple large instances). I think the best way to try and prevent that is for people to join hyper-local, hyper-specific instances that can all connect with one another. I assume that would be the benefit of Lemmy.
You can see a good example of this in the gaming sphere as both Path of Exile and Warframe have entire instances for themselves.
My only concern is extremists making use of it to organize, spread misinformation, coordinate attacks, etc. and there's zero oversight. That's a serious concern that needs addressing, but I have no idea how.
Ban those communities from your instance. There's not going to ever be any way to prevent them starting their own, all you can do is defederate. There doesn't need to be any more.
Yeah, same thing that happened when gab started a Mastodon instance, everyone immediately defederated from them for being Nazis and their reach stayed confined to only their own platform. Deplatforming is never completely stripping a platform from a person/group, it's more of a quarantine. Keep them isolated from the wider community so they can't recruit new members, and their groups wither
There will never be a time when you need adds to pay for a server even if you had a server with 50 million people the cost to run that server might be like 100k if just 1 million people pay 1 dollar you already have 1 million dollars a month you only need adds when your a company that needs to grow every quarter
CEO-proof sounds pretty, though there already exists the (perhaps broader) term “decentralised”.
Something can be decentralized and non-CEO-proof at the same time. Cryptocurrency and related technologies are decentralized, but the wealth and power imbalance between the "peasants" and the rich-get-richer "nobles (derogatory)" is massive (see: 3AC, Celsius, Terra/Luna, etc).
Compare that to the fediverse - if an instance gets spezzed up by some CEO-minded knobhead with bigger ideas than brains, that instance can be defederated. It would still be a great loss of content, but it is decentralized in such a way that one person can't take down the entire ecosystem.
P.s. "spez" is now a verb, it means "to have a passable product/service completely fucked up and its users turned against you because you wanted more money".
Thankfully options like this are becoming available because it's really annoying to need to continually "digitally migrate" away as these corporate controlled websites become enshittified.