Let’s say Lemmy acquires the critical mass of users, continues to gain in popularity. Eventually someone will offer a large sum of money, the platform grows, new owners look towards an IPO, the goals shift, yadayada… How is different this time?
Let’s say Lemmy acquires the critical mass of users, continues to gain in popularity. Eventually someone will offer a large sum of money, the platform grows, new owners look towards an IPO, the goals shift, yadayada… How is different this time?
The barrier to migrating away from an instance that’s going to shit is far lower than on reddit. Also any one instance in the Fediverse holds vastly less power. An individual instance isn’t lucrative enough to buy out. And the tech itself isn’t lucrative enough to buy out. Even if you managed to create a non-FOSS branch the FOSS branch would remain and you would now not only be competing with the libre Fediverse but also all the monolithic social media platforms.