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The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More and more users flock to a few centralized instances (some of which are already starting to show very biased and manipulative administration...)

If the admins on a particular instance become too biased and manipulative, would users continue to flock to them? Or would they leave for another instance?

A bunch of us already left Reddit for Lemmy. The difference here is that users wouldn't even need to switch platforms, just instances.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago

I addressed why the people who left reddit are more a taste of what is to come than anything else.

But that is the point of "certain instances" trying to get a significant percentage of market share. Because any instance will defederate from ten pedophiles. They will think a whole lot more about whether they defederate from 90% of the userbase.

Also: Take a look at The Site Formerly Known as Twitter and how likely people are to leave just because their site is being run by openly manipulative nazis.