Be wary my friends, for we are on the path to glory

I can't wait to be one of the "I was part of the great Reddit migration" dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.

While I agree with the worry concerning corporations joining, I don't really mind "normal" people joining though.

That being said, this is an incorrect use of the meme. The text on the two bottom panels are supposed to stay the same.

Sorry if I'm being pedantic.

The neat part is they really can't fuck it up. You can always run your own instance and defederate from a corporation causing problems. Eventually we'll be getting the feature to block entire instances too so you won't have to rely on your admin making that choice either.

It’s decentralized though. That’s literally the reason I believe in the Fediverse

Easy. Ban every company.

We have more control this time though... When the companies come, we can block them.

That's why we need to abolish private ownership, all corporations must be collectively owned by the community.

It'll be a lot harder for them with federated software, and when the free instances are all solidly established

Corporation owns reddit, owns twitter, owns meta, owns twitch and youtube.

Corporation cant own fediverse. Corporate interests could take over lemmy.world, or any other instance, but that doesnt give them the fediverse. They can block outside users from coming in, they can block inside users from going out, but they cant block outside users from eachother

Yeah I hate how my personal site on my personal servers is always in mark zuckerbergs hands. Wait what was the question?

Don't be surprised if corporations bought out instances or whole development teams. Good thing new Inatances can be launched and the community can always fork the code and continue work.

I hope not. I remember a time in which you needed to know something in order to enjoy the Internet and I kinda hope this place remains less approachable by normies, but attractive to those who love technology. I feel this is like how IRC was in the 90s.

@mino I already saw some adposts from coorperations here. But they werent pushed to me as no ones serves ads here.

I just wouldn't use a corporate server. This here is more like old internet before the likes of google started to buy everything and consolidate the internet. Running a single server is not the same as a server farm in multiple countries.

This is not how the meme template is supposed to be used

I hate to say it, but the vibe has gotten a lot more Reddit-y over the last couple months. Lemmy used to be a lot more controversial, and not afraid to show it

instances collectively agreeing to defederate from corporate ones is what will stop them

In order to screw up Lemmy, corporations would have to take over 1300 or so Instances, scattered in different countries all over the world.

The second they screwed up the most popular Instance(s), folks would just move to other Instances and they could defederate from the corporate ones.

Great thing about the fediverse is that it will always have new instances and we can keep moving to the cool ones

Ah shit

Here we go again

Can corporations fuck it up if they want to? Couldn't we just migrate to a new instance and not federate? Or not federate with them from the beginning?

I don’t think this will be a popular take but I think big companies joining the Fediverse has the potential to be a healthy thing. They’d have the resources to make it more viable to onboard the masses. This would grow the graph and the content pool.

Once onboarded, people can hear the gospel from us Fediverse-freaks and potentially migrate. The concept of finding and joining a federated instance won’t be so scary. The people that won’t migrate probably never were going to.

Will they be perfect citizens? Almost certainly not, but it doesn’t have to be all bad

Then we'll create our own network. With blackjack and hookers!

We always knew this would happen though.

Corps joining is fine. It’s when the corps are out in control that the issues arise

We have the powe to stop corporations. At least for now, as we control the fediverse. However keep in mind, everything meets its end inevitably.

I mean, that’s the way it goes sometimes. I know it’s like “duh just be like this!” Type statement but people really shouldn’t ever attach themselves to websites, brands, etc. Always be mentally ready to walk away. That doesn’t mean walk at the first shitty experience, but, you know. Gotta know when to ol’ yeller something and reddit passed that point a long time ago. Discord is my personal ol’ yeller project right now besides reddit. Trying to get people to move off since they’re just becoming greedier and greedier + it’s centralized as fuck and they’re starting to make moves, it seems, towards more censorship there despite that kind of being the opposite of what people came to expect.

Don't worry I joined to even it out

I haven't touched Reddit in years and hate corporations

Let's hope this plan works and more people who don't use Reddit and hate corporations join

Stanley Kubrick over here

Do we really want normies on our site? Will they really act as bait for the megacorps to come and ruin our federation?

The course is clear: gatekeep the normies. Corporations won't care if easily fooled cattle don't use lemmy.