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[–] Aurix 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see his it won't happen here. The vote structure is very similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that is true, but it wasn't as bad on reddit back in the day (as far as I remember), it seems to have happened after reddit went super-mainstream a few years ago. So I am hoping lemmy will be like that until it "potentially" becomes super popular lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if Lemmy becomes so successful and then it gets acquired by Reddit? Lol.

Think of the big corps like Google, Facebook, etc. buying the competitors for their products.

[–] dissonant 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you can move to another instance or host your own. They can't buy them all up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmfao, imagine some corpo trying to buy up all the instances one by one while the users all migrate out of the instance immediately when that happens. That would be hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh, i wanna see that happen, like reddit trying to do that and going bankrupt in the process

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The federated decentralized nature of Lemmy and it being open-source means that when this happens the users laugh at whoever paid for an instance and celebrate whoever got the bag and all migrate to a new instance.

See AdBlock -> AdBlock + -> Ublock -> Unlock Origin for a story of idiot capitalists donating massive sums of money only to buy a product that is quite literally drop-in replaceable by design... and Lemmy makes this process even easier than that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not getting negative Karma helps I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

karma gamification is pure, unadulterated evil.