I’m here because it’s eventually going to be the better alternative.

FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.

  • Banzai51@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Hosting costs are going to bite everyone in the ass. That’s the opportunity for corporations to step in and slowly fuck things up. So right now, if you look at the instances, there are a lot of topic overlap, like gaming. Now imagine down the road that say, Steam hosts their own gaming instance. People flock to it as a centralized discussion opportunity. We could easily end up back to a very corporate controlled situation.

    • Darkwraith@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m okay with the existence of the corporate run server in your example so long as alternatives remain available and that corporate server can’t start requesting removal of “competition.”

      Some amount of centralization isn’t bad, so long as people can still choose to be elsewhere.

      • llama@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        A corporate run Lemmy server can remove competition by simply choosing not to federate with any other instance.

        • Stoneykins@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          But that would be fine, wouldn’t it? Then they wouldn’t show up elsewhere, they would basically be using lemmy as a template to make a standalone website. If they want the general audience, they would have to create a general experience that is better than being connected to all the other servers, and that would be a lot of work.

          But maybe I’ve misunderstood it, because I’m new to all this.

    • Apolinario Mabussy@lemmy.calvss.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      This could very well be the future. Especially considering certain big tech companies (like Meta) are already trying to make their own implementations of ActivityPub. However, people are discussing ways to possibly mitigate this, like multireddits.

    • Aurix@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      That communities, and unfortunately whole instances might turn to shit is more of a given. The big advantage is the switch would be a lot smoother. If reddit was a gargantuan instance, the loss would still be catastrophic, however the ecosystem would remain in tact. That is the user interface, the third party apps and so on. Right now everything is completely leveled and you need to start from scratch.