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Excited by the “fediverse” but wondering about the future (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago by minim to c/lemmyworld

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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.

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[–] phthalocyanin 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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)