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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] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree, it's already happening. The Media Bias Fact Checker bot is another example. Nobody I've interacted with wants it, it is functionally useless and inaccurate, and appears to be a cash grab (though we can't know for sure, because the mods refuse to openly discuss it with users). We live in a capitalist society, so even platforms like Lemmy are subject to its pressures, and require active pushback from users to prevent profits from taking precedence over user satisfaction on larger instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

To be fair, that seems to be more of a Lemmy.world problem, which itself is one of the worst overall instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered moving to similar communities without the bot?

I know I usually recommend [email protected] compared to the LW world news

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just subbed, thanks. This is kind of my fundamental challenge with this platform, though. I don’t want to miss anything on the subjects I’m interested in, so I sub to every instances’ version of the same community. I’m probably doing it wrong, but if I sub to just one small sub-community because I like the mods, or the lack of bots, I feel like I’d be missing a lot of content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Happy to help!