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How long until we have corporate instances in the Fediverse? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not willing to give them ideas so fast.

That's something that popped in my head as soon as I started in here, not so long ago.

But there's nothing to prevent that, right? I mean, Meta could very well create a meta instance on Lemmy or Kbin or Mastodon or in all of them, bring a bunch of users, sprinkle in some ads because why not.

Sure, they could be defederated from more restrictive insfances. In the bigger picture, every other instance could boycott them, but they would surely federate among themselves (Elon meets Mark, ugh). They also have all the computational power and would have no problem being the largest instances in the Fediverse.

Then what? Is that feasible? Probable? My utopian future about a free, descentralized Fediverse is a lie?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We do it’s called ‘beehaw’

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

okay I laughed at this

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

How is beehaw corporate?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please, let's not popularize the "/s" here

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

I already got vote massacred cause I made a joke about displaying Nazi logos being illegal, since that neighborhood in...Chicago? outlawed the trans flag(where I was clearly on the right side) and people assumed I was making an actual, factual argument for the nazis. It's necessary sometimes lol

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

I am new here and out of the loop. Can you explain?

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

Beehaw defederated from some of the larger Lemmy instances due to problem users and limited moderation abilities (Lemmy as a platform, limited staff). As one of the larger Lemmy instances themselves and where many Reddit folks went, this rubbed some people the wrong way. Beehaw has a specific idea about the community they want and are proactive in protecting that vision, I don’t know how this makes them “corporate” but there you go.

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

Thank you :)