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Who owns the Fediverse? I mean who owns and runs the hardware that runs this system? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.

Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?

So .. for the ELI5 version of the question ... Who owns the fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So there are kinda 3 answers to your question:

Who owns Lemmy? Nobody; it's FOSS

Who owns Lemmy.ca? Smorks

Who owns activitypub protocol? The world wide web consortium created it I believe, but it's an open standard and will likely evolve based on which organizations use it. In the same way as how HTML and HTTP have evolved over time alongside the growth of some of the largest applications that use those standards.

[–] liara 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a bit pedantic but Lemmy technically belongs to everyone who's ever contributed. As the project is licensed by GPL v3, the only way for the project license to be altered would be with the consent of every contributor and/or by removing the contributions of those who don't agree with the change.