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.
I’m more concerned about Lemmy becoming another Voat or Poal.
I wouldn’t worry too much about that. A lot of the beginning of Lemmy was making sure we fostered and attracted a community that held anti-racist principles.
All the biggest lemmy servers hold those principles, and pretty quickly block any “voat-like” instances that pop up, as has happened in the past few years. Eventually those instances stagnate and die off.
A similar thing happened with mastodon iirc, truth.social was trump’s mastodon startup, and most of the fediverse blocked it very quickly.
Oh my god, WHAT. Truth Social is just a Mastodon instance? It makes sense that his people wouldn’t bother doing any of their own coding, but it’s still kinda wild.
I mean isnt that kinda the goal of mastodon? Everyone is free to make their own community and everyone else is free to zone them out if they dont like it. If anything I’d say it was a good proof of concept.
Great point, but it’s still a hilarious marriage.
Yeah, I saw some Voat-like posts here yesterday that were quickly removed.
It always starts with the fringe articles, then devolves into conspiracy theory. Good to see the moderation here is strong.
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.