In particular, it seems to me that centralization is almost a law of the universe (or at least a tendency). Lemmy may start decentralized, with dozens or hundreds of meaningfully-sized instances, but it’s easy to imagine a not-far future where most everyone has settled on just a handful of instances (or even just one).
I don’t mean to just be a pessimist here. I’m sure I’m far from the first person to wonder about this, and I’m curious whether there are ideas of how to counterbalance the tendency toward centralization.
one may argue that part of the ‘enshitification’ was a tendency for subreddits with high traffic to end up in the control of one of a handful of 'power’mods, leading to a de-facto hegemony, and by extension homogenization of content (think default subs)