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Lemmy is CEO-proof. After Digg, Reddit and Twitter, that term should be a thing (yiffit.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

You’re posting this on lemmy.world. The owner of this instance, the biggest new instance, is literally building out a business of instance hosting.

If this goes well, and his business grows, it will have chief executives.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

But there will be other instances. If this one does something stupid, then we go to another one and miss almost nothing.

[-] daguito81@waveform.social 10 points 2 years ago

That's a bit like saying "Yeah so we don't care what reddit does, because you can always go somewhere else"

It's the biggest instance, so it's where most of the community and content would be etc etc. Just like what happened with beehaw could happen to world as well. This is only true for a mature decentralized federated ecosystem with a lot of redundant communities so that if one goes down you can easily consume the same content from a different instence. Is that the case now? I would say no, so it's even less leader-proof.

[-] average650@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is perfectly fine with beehaw defederating.

There is certainly the risk of a single instance dominating. But even now there are a few significant instances and losing beehaw didn't ruin anything.

[-] gh0stcassette 1 points 2 years ago

True, but a lot of the main communities I subscribed to were in Beehaw, so I've mostly abandoned my lemmy.world account and moved to a smaller instance that's less likely to get defederated from

[-] graphite@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It's definitely good, but it isn't full proof. Nothing is.

[-] lunooky@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

r/boneappletea

Sorry I couldn't resist

[-] graphite@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Lol.

Guess it's my turn

[-] average650@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

RIght. It does depend on there being multiple major instances.

[-] lightrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It depends what he's the CEO of. For example whether it's a non-profit, a for-profit, a co-op, etc. It also depends on the licensing of the data. I don't think this last bit has been tackled by Lemmy yet. Wikipedia has done it quite successfully. If the data is licensed under CC for example, and backups are published, then migration of the whole instance becomes possible like it is for Wikipedia. That would be one hell of a disincentive to fuck around, even if the company is for-profit. Non-profit co-op plus CC-licensed data is probably the most resistant.