What makes this website resistant to enshitrification? (lemm.ee)

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If Facebook and Reddit and Twitter are all going downhill, what leads people to believe that websites like Mastadon or Lemmy won't go the same way eventually?

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[-] necrobius@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two reasons:

Lemmy admins aren't accountable to investors or shareholders so there's no pressure to make things worse.
If enhsittification happens on any instance. Like it's owned by a cooperation. Then other instances can block it/defederate, or users can move to another instance

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Both of these reasons only remain true if Lemmy stays small.

[-] brunofin@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Imagine GIMP is enshitified somehow. Well that won't work because the source code is available and people will just create a fork and work with that instead.

There's many Lemmy and Mastodons servers AND clients out there, being open source is already one thing add federation on top and you see no one really is in control of Lemmy or Mastodon as a whole.

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is Gimp as fragmented as Lemmy? If I want to use the blue tool do I have to use Gimp A, and crop Gimp B? With Lemmy entire genres could just disappear if my iteration defederates with the interaction that hosted all the interesting topics. If that happens then the community all gets split up among other communities which likely will never come back whole again. It’s the Linux model, which is fine for longevity and availability, but it’s not good for keeping like minded people together. Fragmentation might be fine for a tool, but it’s not great for community.

[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Kind of like our worlds nations!

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine websites only had content from people in your own country. That would be awful.

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