Why are people saying that Lemmy is free of corporate interest?
Can’t a corporation just enter the space whenever they want to? Can’t they start or even buy out larger instances? Even if Lemmy does take off, wouldn’t this inevitably happen anyway if the space gets popular enough?
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This sounds exactly like how they would think! Especially the reach critical mass and defederate from everyone else.
they did: [see xmpp](https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
What a great read. Thanks for linking that article - I had no idea about most of that stuff.
This is what many expect is the goal of Meta’s forthcoming Thread.