There is a “big main instance” effect that seems to form unfortunately
And the barrier to transferring instances is quite high
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week agoDisagree. The technology behind the fediverse is designed to prevent this. No matter how big one instance is or how much resources they have, they can never control anything more than their own server and users can federated and defederate as they wish.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Te technology Is not really designed to prevent that, it is designed to be decentralised. Now, email is decentralised but everyone uses Gmail.
Imagine Reddit closes and everyone from there flocks into lemmy. Will small instances stand the influx? Will single maintainers with a small server allow 10 million new users in their instance? Most likely not, either they will limit subscriptions or they’ll close down.
As such the most likely thing to happen is that someone with money opens a big instance which can host all those people. And there, you got Reddit exactly as it was.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think that it’s still vulnerable to the explore expand exterminate model. Look at what Facebook threads is doing, same thing. They are slowly but surely infesting the fediverse like a cancer that grows, eventually killing the host by sucking its vital resources away.