Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My concern is the extensive data Reddit collects and stores, and I’m sure will hand it over to whichever government agency wants it, and probably already have. They even keep track of what we upvote and downvote, including comments.
I feel less exposed here, I don’t know if that’s true, but it feels that way.
Null_Ritual@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thats what I am wondering. Like, what are the benefits of this style of social media, aside from that Elon Musk cant buy it? But in a way, couldnt he buy the most population Instances like Lemmy.World? Is that a possibility?
scytale@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s the beauty of decentralization. If a billionaire somehow wants to buy a lemmy instance (unlikely), and the instance owners agree (unlikely), users will just switch to a different instance and other instances will just defederate from it (likely).
can@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unlikely, but either way, I’m not registered there and neither are you. There’s already many of us hesitant of their size and are quick to recommend making new communities somewhere else.
If that were to happen many people would make accounts elsewhere.
To reiterate, this place isn’t own by anyone. I’m confident we would all just move to other instances.