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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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[-] llama@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

No it isn't. A company can be formed to be the steward of either or both the Lemmy source code or popular instances, which would be run by a CEO. I bet anything these corporate structures naturally form as people try to monetize the community and seek investment to gain control over the ecosystem.

[-] maggoats@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The hurdle to that is much greater here since there's a common protocol adopted by multiple open source projects (of which Lemmy) which allows interoperability. If a profit-driven group would try to capture it, people could move instances/use a fork/use a different but similar activitypub project like kbin, etc.

At least I think that's correct? It seems to me there are multiple lines of defense which each have a good amount of redundancy.