cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24088740

Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way?

Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s not like the current group of users is perfect either. There’s a lot of circlejerk opinions going around, and I’ve seen being get majorly downvoted for posting factual info that went against the “hivemind” opinion.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That’s going to happen in any community. All you can do about it is checking your own assumptions and providing what you see as proof yourself.

      Or calling them a bunch of idiots. That won’t do any good, in a community sense, but it can be personally satisfying.