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If just a few Instances ends up having the majority of Users - Will Lemmy still be decentralized? (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] jeremoose 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree and this will be true for any social platform. This could also happen to communities within lemmy.world.

I think the main advantage of lemmy (or activity pub in general) is the fact that it's protocol is open source which allows people to spin up their own versions of a platform without end users "necessarily" having to change clients (this obviously implementation specific).

The fact that activity pub is federated is a bonus because it makes the whole "moving to a different community" easier but i see the fact that its open source as a much bigger benefit.