"Welcome, I'm the CEO of email!"
Really, it should be kept more like an overplatform or protocol like what the email is. Luckily, Lemmy has the roles of developers and content admins so separated and decentralized that it shouldn't become a corpo-danger from now on
“Get the CEO of the Internet on the phone!”
My only concern is extremists making use of it to organize, spread misinformation, coordinate attacks, etc. and there's zero oversight. That's a serious concern that needs addressing, but I have no idea how.
Ban those communities from your instance. There's not going to ever be any way to prevent them starting their own, all you can do is defederate. There doesn't need to be any more.
In the Fediverse there are no Zuckerbergs, Musks, Dorseys, Huffmans etc.
There is ALWAYS the possibility to enshittify anything. Meta is trying to infiltrate Mastodon already.
CEO proof is a good reason to describe why I want my podcasts to come via an RSS feed instead of depending on an all-in-one app. I've often said things about open gardens and interoperable services, but that preaches to the choir.
"CEO Proof" really sells it to a non technical user.
One day the lemmy could just go closed source and sell to a company.
Even if they do, they would not be able to force instance owners to update to the closed version. And people would take over the last available open source version and fork it. Also, a closed and open source version could co-exist, since the api is open.
If they went closed source that would mean they would have a similar situation to Emby. They went closed source after a time which gave rise to people forking the last public build and making Jellyfin which is an excellent alternative.
CEO-proof sounds pretty, though there already exists the (perhaps broader) term “decentralised”.
Something can be decentralized and non-CEO-proof at the same time. Cryptocurrency and related technologies are decentralized, but the wealth and power imbalance between the "peasants" and the rich-get-richer "nobles (derogatory)" is massive (see: 3AC, Celsius, Terra/Luna, etc).
Compare that to the fediverse - if an instance gets spezzed up by some CEO-minded knobhead with bigger ideas than brains, that instance can be defederated. It would still be a great loss of content, but it is decentralized in such a way that one person can't take down the entire ecosystem.
P.s. "spez" is now a verb, it means "to have a passable product/service completely fucked up and its users turned against you because you wanted more money".
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.
You could also totally monetize hosting and build a business around that. There are already several private projects to build lemmy clients.
With federated sites you won’t have one CEO. If it takes off, we’ll have many CEOs. Trust me.
I agree that the more accurate term is "board-proof" but I still think "CEO-proof" conveys the idea better to someone who is unaware of the way social media corpos work. The image of the shady CEO with his pinstripe suite and greased hair, lighting his big cigar with a wad of dollar bills is so strong in the cultural conciousness, that even my inlaws would switch to a federated plattform.
I've never thought of something being CEO-proof, but you're not wrong. Those CEO's did shit the bed in the most diarrhea way possible.
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