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The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it could to a small degree but not to the degree Reddit went abusive to its users. If lemmy.world got weird, I'd just leave and go to another one. I don't really care all that much what instance I'm on except that the trolls are kept down and the front page posts a lot of diverse stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the concern is more

LW works great, and it has most of the communities so most new people join there
LW starts running Lemmy + some extra features on top
time passes
LW closes off, but it still has the mass of users and new features, and most people don't care about what this might mean because it still "works great". There's not enough friction to jump instances
it enshitifies, we're back to June 2023

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why I'm already on different instances, it's not hard at all to switch and compare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But most users won't care to do so.