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The masses will always use some corporate pushed product ~ Lemmy may be like early days Reddit - a small community of tech ppl , then may grow and get better in the future with volume , but Facebook will probably never die because all ages (old) and non tech/agile ppl are using it now ~~
Does the Lemmy license prevent corporations running nodes? In fact, it doesn't even have to be Lemmy.
If you think about email, it's widespread and used by everyone; but it is still mostly ruled by corporations (Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Outlook/Hotmail) for the average personal user. The protocol is open but the servers are run by different corporations each with their own UI. I'd guess there's probably no reason we won't end up like that some day, with some corporation creating a big social network with proprietary code, that happens to work well with ActivityPub so they have heaps of content and users on day 1, getting over that common initial social media hurdle (that none of your friends use it).
Honestly a big commercialised Lemmy instance would already be a huge improvement over the current state, because it would still be federated