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Fediverse enshittification (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 month ago by 5dh to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (18 children)

No, it's not possible. The openness of the platform means even if one instance decides to paywall, everyone else keeps working just fine.

[–] 5dh 7 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Even if, for instance, Threads was widely allowed to federate with Mastodon servers?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Ironically Mastodon.social is still federated

https://fedipact.veganism.social/

But I guess if Threads fully federates with some Mastodon instances, people would leave those instances

[–] 5dh 7 points 1 month ago

What really helps is that fediverse users are quite aware of the ideology behind federated social networks. I think, indeed, they won't all stay on a server that is federated with Threads if it threatens the fedi network.

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