• llama
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    1 year ago

    No it isn’t. A company can be formed to be the steward of either or both the Lemmy source code or popular instances, which would be run by a CEO. I bet anything these corporate structures naturally form as people try to monetize the community and seek investment to gain control over the ecosystem.

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      1 year ago

      The hurdle to that is much greater here since there’s a common protocol adopted by multiple open source projects (of which Lemmy) which allows interoperability. If a profit-driven group would try to capture it, people could move instances/use a fork/use a different but similar activitypub project like kbin, etc.

      At least I think that’s correct? It seems to me there are multiple lines of defense which each have a good amount of redundancy.