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How long until we have corporate instances in the Fediverse? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by RomanRoy to c/[email protected]

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Not willing to give them ideas so fast.

That's something that popped in my head as soon as I started in here, not so long ago.

But there's nothing to prevent that, right? I mean, Meta could very well create a meta instance on Lemmy or Kbin or Mastodon or in all of them, bring a bunch of users, sprinkle in some ads because why not.

Sure, they could be defederated from more restrictive insfances. In the bigger picture, every other instance could boycott them, but they would surely federate among themselves (Elon meets Mark, ugh). They also have all the computational power and would have no problem being the largest instances in the Fediverse.

Then what? Is that feasible? Probable? My utopian future about a free, descentralized Fediverse is a lie?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure if that would be the end of the world. Something needs to pay for hosting and companies will want to use social media or may want public forums.

Could be an ad supported instance or a nonprofit with membership fees to pay for hosting. There could also be an instance for hosting company based topics and mod accounts. On Reddit a lot of games or companies had an official sub and accounts. Running the magazine/community could be a service. Especially if there were some extra tools or settings for companies or company accounts. Another possibility is having a closed and private instance for internal users like a slack or internal wiki.