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If lemmy every becomes mainstream the implementation details will be completely lost to people, and that's ok. You can try explaining someone what a web browser is, but people will still say "I opened google" or even "I opened internet" instead of "I opened chrome". With lemmy there will probably be a few huge instances that people just gravitate to, and if/when something goes wrong, communities will have to migrate, and users will have to try to get into a new instance.
I already can imagine some people talking to their tech savy friend and telling them
It's like old bar names from when people did not know how to read, I don't know what that fediverse and lemmy stuff is, I just go to the white monkey.
That's what happened with email. Back in the day it was basically just institutions and very geeky people with basement servers who had an email address (and before that, government). For it to hit mainstream, large, for-profit corporations, had to set up mail servers and make it easy to get in and use it. Nowadays people just use their browser or outlook or Gmail app without even knowing what an SMTP server is. If the fediverse evolved that way, I hope by then there are a lot of communities that have taken root in community-owned instances, otherwise power just gets reconcentrated to a few big players again.
That makes sense. I guess there's no one stopping someone from creating an instance which has ads and tries to do a for-profit version right? The only thing that might happen is all the other instances un-federating it.
Pretty much. I feel like people see Lemmy and Mastodon in its current state, and they think oh that's the fediverse, then. But as the fediverse grows, everything on it will have to evolve or die. I mean, Lemmy is in alpha at the moment. The more instances and people start using Lemmy, the more it will have to change to accommodate those people. Infrastructure will have to be created, even new policies on how servers can communicate to avoid abuse. This is all just the beginning.