Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way?

Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.

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[–] djidane535@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Probably not the same kind of « enshitification », but I think the fediverse creates small communities, and sometimes, it’s difficult / impossible to find non-aggressive communities for some subjects.

It’s not really solving the issues caused by the users themselves, especially when communities are not big enough to justify big moderation teams, and those people have no incentive at all to be « kind » (it’s hit or miss I would say). Instead of 1 big community with good moderation, you can end up with many small communities with little or bad moderation.

I have no solution to propose, it’s probably inherent to the fediverse.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

for some subjects.

Which subjects do you have in mind? Politics?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, currently every politics thread on the fediverse which gets any traction is hijacked by the same few trolls. Last year they were doing "DNC corruption" and "Blue MAGA." This year they are all "Genocide Joe." It's insanely transparent. I get people have different opinions, but these few individuals do literally nothing on the fediverse but drop the exact same comments in every single thread which has the word "Democrats" or "Biden" or "Harris" in the title.

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