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.