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Am I weird to think that the fediverse will eventually succumb to enshitification in its own ways? As in, if it does pick up then any easy to sign up and popular instances will have a certain concentration of power and if they try to cater to the masses, they might just end up becoming their own silos if defederated from other instances en masse.
I’m just kinda posting here to air some thoughts. I’m sure I’m not the first to think about this and of course I understand this is a feature not a bug.
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.
I think the concern is more
That's why I'm already on different instances, it's not hard at all to switch and compare.
But most users won't care to do so.