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?

  • morrowindOP
    6·
    3 years ago

    it’s actually quite impressive how corporations took the open network of the internet and managed to turn it into a series of walled gardens

    I don’t think it’s that impressive when you consider:

    • walled gardens drive revenue
    • revenue becomes capital to create next piece of software
    • next piece of software is then naturally walled, to further drive revenue

    And slowly the cycle takes over [most] of the web.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      3·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, the web has become just a handful of corporate websites and that really needs to change going forward.