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What is the management structure of lemmy world and how is the bill for all of the web hosting paid.
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Bill is paid by using donations through open collective and Patreon:
https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld
https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld
Which is confirmed in their blog post about Lemmy:
https://blog.mastodon.world/
So mastodon.world, calckey.world and lemmy.world are all run by ruud and looking at mastodon.world it states they have 3 admins in total. So 2 besides ruud. And i assume the same group is involved in all of these.
This is just what i managed to figure out before joining lemmy.
Also [email protected] might be a good follow.
Sounds like an unhealthy powermod situation again
It will be the case with the fediverse in general. But the point of the federation is to make it easier to switch instance, reducing the power of the owners.
An ideal solution to this would be a fully distributed system. But this has many technical challenges as it pushes the complexity on the client side. And the moderation is then also more complex. Federation aims at finding the good trade-off between giving power to a few capable people to manage the network, yet making it difficult for them to abuse the system as users can easily switch ship without losing their entire social network. This is similar to emails - changing your email address is a pain, but you don't lose your contacts and can still talk to people with your new address.
I mean, every website except one you run on your own hardware has this exact problem: whoever is running it owns it completely, and they set the rules (within legal boundaries).
The only ways you can avoid this are:
With Lemmy you can do both. A lot of people are setting up small, <10 user instances to control their data and stay out of federation drama.
This is a question regardless of instance and the size of the instance. At least in my mind.
Personally I don’t have too much concern right now but if anything happens that changes that then I’ll just leave.