We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.
The beauty of the Fediverse is that it doesn’t matter if it does. There could be instances like Voat/Poal, and there could be instances like pre-Digg-exodus Reddit, and if the divide is big enough the two sides will defederate from each other and won’t communicate. This is a solved problem in the microblog side of the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc), where there is a huge variety of instances. Sign up on an instance whose rules and moderation you prefer, and you’ll be fine.
Yeah, I’m seeing that on Mastodon. I’ve been there for a couple of years.
It’s much more left leaning, a nicer community, and it looks like the servers are set up block Gab.