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Do you want Lemmy to become mainstream? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some people might find the answer to be obvious (yes) but I've rarely found it so. In fact, this is a question I often find in the linux community (regarding linux going mainstream, not lemmy) and people are pretty split upon it.

On one hand, you may get benefits like more activity, more content, more people to interact with, a greater chance you'll find someone to talk to on some specific subject.

On the other, you could run into an eternal September like reddit, where Lemmy would lose its culture, and have far more spam and moderation issues.

I don't know, what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would for a few reasons. Particularly to show the world that we don’t need corporations to create something good.

Though I am worried about some inconveniences caused by the fundamentally separate instances. Simple things like copying a post, navigating back to your instance, navigating to the search feature, searching for it, waiting for the result, opening the result and then finally able to take action on it.

It can also drive disconnection, despite trying to work against it. It has the ability to put people into silos and build social walls due to intentional and unintentional ignorance. Though you can most certainly argue that is already an emergent property social media algorithms today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Particularly to show the world that we don’t need corporations to create something good.

The world already knows. Wikipedia, Mozilla, GNU/Linux exist and have thrived brilliantly. If anybody argues for the necessity of corporations for innovation in the internet/IT space, they are simply blind at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I should have specified the context of building something to communicate on. I think my original point is that I'm excited for the properties that come with decentralization but I'm worried about it's drawbacks. The grass is always greener, they say. Perhaps this decentralization all goes extremely well and we have many types of services that adopt the mentality. How long will it take before we see the disorganization, identify it as causing disconnection and separatism before pulling it all back together again?

I actually typed out a longer response before realizing you and I have the same belief. 😄 Though I haven't yet determined if I can blanketly state all corporations are good or bad and I think I'm okay with staying on that fence. If anything corporations just reveal the properties of the people who run them when they have been blinded by a common goal--and how blinded (or not) they become.