It’s not a single person instance either, it’s just using your own domain in your handle.

It’s a for profit company founded by jack dorsey and currently led by a cryptocurrency fanatic

The CEO comes from the world of crypto and it is a for profit company

Can you link to one of these other instances?

There is only one bluesky it’s literally centralized

I didn’t say extremist I said toxic but really anyone who’s poorly socialized will go where they’re allowed, which in Lemmy terms means general catch-all instances with loose moderation like .world and .ml.

If they choose to migrate to another instance, it will likely be a more extremist instance with poor moderation that has been significantly defederated.

In theory this is how it should work, but in practice the toxic people tend to move to general purpose more laissez-faire places like .world or .ml, which makes de-federating and cutting off 30% of all users a difficult decision for anyone trying to have a community.

The answer is less centralization, but that can’t be forced. beehaw.org (for example) made the decision to cut off .world and they are better for it. But they are a large-ish instance in their own right.

Exactly, it also means we can have different regions for different types of conversations, much like in the real world.

Why would someone who doesn’t like blocking and de-federation like “federated platforms”?

“You censored me for my opinion”

“What opinion was it?”

“…”

“What opinion was it Anakin?”

I’m surprised there’s no fedi version of Facebook but I’m also sure as the fediverse evolves we’ll see the return of personal websites but with activitypub-based social features.

They’ve been extremely transparent about this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg

Nobody’s mentioned Homarr or CasaOS but if you want an out of the box “Just works” but still open source experience they’re the best bet.

This might be the most lemmy comment I’ve ever seen.

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Yeah it’s not the same. Corporations suck in a different way.

Lemmy instances comprise a relatively small part of the Fediverse.

Got a link? I’d be curious to read that.

It’s not hopeless! The Fediverse is AFAIK entirely nonprofit, and smaller instances means more moderator eyes on everything, too.

If I had to predict the future, I think apps like Reddit, Twitter, Tioktok, etc will be the places for entertainment and the Fediverse will become the place for conversation.

Reddit has been trying hard for years to move beyond being a discussion forum to another mindless scroling app.

The reason is because in the time people read one discussion thread they only see one ad, but scrolling memes, etc they will see many more. It makes the ads much more valuable.