Or maybe nonprofit organizations. Though I'm having a harder time imagining why they'd need a social network site, especially if it's federated with our shit posting "sublemmies" or whatever we're calling them here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NLnet already sponsors the development of Lemmy. They donate money when certain roadmap items are achieved (which has slowed down due to the efforts to make Lemmy scale). NLnet sponsors organizations and people that contribute to an open information society.

Places like Lemmy are not just shit posting. Just look at the immense value of the content at reddit. Google became so useless when the blackout happened. LLMs like GPT4 are trained for a large part on this human generated content. It's absolutely vital that this information is not controlled by a handful large corporations as it is now. Federated social media could break this pattern and bring back a free and open internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could yes.

But only if they're able to survive and thrive. Money is a very tricky thing.

As for my example, I was talking more about something like Red Cross (random example) wanting their own Lemmy insurance. Why they would want that. I was really just jesting about the shit posting