I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech.
But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt? Where the population us much larger and its basically the same? It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?
Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right? So what’s the benefit?
Thats what I am wondering. Like, what are the benefits of this style of social media, aside from that Elon Musk cant buy it? But in a way, couldnt he buy the most population Instances like Lemmy.World? Is that a possibility?
That’s the beauty of decentralization. If a billionaire somehow wants to buy a lemmy instance (unlikely), and the instance owners agree (unlikely), users will just switch to a different instance and other instances will just defederate from it (likely).
Unlikely, but either way, I’m not registered there and neither are you. There’s already many of us hesitant of their size and are quick to recommend making new communities somewhere else.
If that were to happen many people would make accounts elsewhere.
To reiterate, this place isn’t own by anyone. I’m confident we would all just move to other instances.
The fact that you can choose your instance, and therefore the moderation policy of your instance. If you think your instance admins are too power trippy, too ban-happy, not ban-happy enough, lean too much into censorship, don’t lean enough into censorship, don’t censor the right people, censor the wrong people, etc you can find an instance modded by like-minded people rather than have to accept it if your instance is suddenly run by Spez. I personally have a couple of instances I would’ve hated to be on, so it’s good to have options.
Only if the admins agree to that, since they’re not running a public company. And even if they did, people can just jump ship.