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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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It was always going to go that way. Any social media site is going to go that way.
Even Lemmy will one day go that way.
Here's the program:
Is it possible to commercialize lemmy?
Capitalism uh... finds a way.
How is Lemmy paying for the servers they need to serve content? I have no idea, but someone is footing the bill.
I think some of the larger instances accept user donations. And smaller instances are just paid for by the owner.
I think eventually what we will see is companies hosting their own official instances where they have absolute admin/moderation privileges (which is bad) but they will wind up paying to host their own propaganda/tech support which is good. Probably governments too, which sounds like it sucks but they have a twitter and facebook pages already so its really no different.
Interesting. I'd welcome something like cable where companies would host content to push their brands.
Its not about welcoming it, we literally cant stop them from doing it. The only thing you can do is join instances that dont federate with corporate instances and thats where the schism will likely happen.
Volkswagen-Audi Group (VAG) wont want to federate with instances that also host hentai and cuck porn. So you will see a divide, between the corporate and heavily administrated instances (Administration that would cost money. Either adds, sponsorship or paid membership that you would let your kids have accounts on and "Free Fediverse" instances that would be far less restrictive.
Eventually the masses will want to follow the corporate and sanitised fediverse because these people have marketing budgets and can pay teams (have AI) generate content for their brand and the "free fediverse" instances will become the fringe groups.
For uh science, which servers host hentai?
But in all seriousness, even if they claim to not be affiliated with a corp, you still can't be sure. God knows a lot of us would sell out faster than reel big fish if they pulled a dump truck of money to our front door.
But seriously I need some fediverse porn.
Thats the thing, they wont have to pretend not to be. If all the big corporate instances federate with each other and only federate with instances that moderate their content to be largely in line with meta and their instance when that group has 2 billion members, it will be the default.
Free user owned instances will be isolated pockets of resistance. If the "reddit blackout" and the continual survival of facebook and twitter is any indication, casual users just dont care.
What about what happened to Reddit? It got popular, then got bought, then turned into shit.
In that case we were lucky enough to be told about it, but what happens when memes or lemmy.ml gets sold under the table?
does it matter? can't people do anything for the love of the game anymore?
Sure they can, but how long will their "just for the fun of it" mentality last when AWS bills are thousands of dollars and Taco Bell offers them $6 million for control of it?
Would they even tell us or would we just start seeing a bunch of Tacos Locos ads on hot?
I'm betting a non-disclosure would the first thing they'd have to sign.
Meta seems to be trying to commercialize ActivityPub, so maybe???
It all boils down to looking down on the ‘lowly’ people they deem inferior, because they are higher up now.