Jingszo !

I think Lemmy will be OK as long as users take care not to overcentralize.

When Lemmy dies someday it will be for a different pattern, like issues with bots or problems scaling the moderation capacity.

I think a sustainable growth pattern that could help keep this from happening here is one where connected subnetworks of Lemmy servers grow up to a certain point and then eventually split into distinct networks.

There's a critical mass required before it's worth corporate and nation-state troll attention. If networks split off from each other before that mass is reached, then they might never get much attention.

Or if they split a bit after that mass is reached, maybe they waste a bunch of resources and never get a good return on that investment and then the critical mass goes up a bit because there's more risk involved. Plus seeing that shit might make people more receptive of the idea of a split because some still have the idea that more popular = better.

That said, I do see that splitting a network like that won't be easy to do in a way that doesn't hurt communities. I'm also not sure how to handle niche communities, other than pointing out that they existed before Reddit was a thing, they weren't just all concentrated on one website or platform.

i suggest having multiple accounts in many instances especially since i see you are on .world.

if you don't have one, do it now! :)

my guess (100% vibes-based) is .world might consume another couple comms and split off to its own thing. If i'm even right, how much that split affects lemmy depends on how many and how well we users are spread out over the other comms.