If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instance wars.

macisr@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 933 points –

If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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Reminds me of the good ol IRC days.

IRC was fun, then people chose corporate poisoned simplicity (AOL, MSN) and that spelt the doom for protocols, until now.

Because you’ve been down that road, Neo, and I know that’s not where you want to be.