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Fediverse enshittification (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 months 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] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not until they are eclipsed by proprietary ActivityPub apps. Threads and Flipboard already exist.

However, there is no AP but proprietary rival to e.g. Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed (edit: there will be?) or PeerTube.

[–] 5dh 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Unrelated question, how does Piefed differ from Lemmy? Is it designed to exist alongside Lemmy, or is it a better alternative somehow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Why not both?

We have topics here, voting is private, image communities can be tiled, there are some differences in rep counting, etc.

All differences

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not better necessarily, just different. But yes, it exists alongside Lemmy. Hopefully in the future there could be many more alternatives.