• @[email protected]
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    326 days ago

    i wonder what things will be like if lemmy ever gets large enough to warrant attention from vulture funds and the american gov’t

    • @[email protected]
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      626 days ago

      The admins are principled Marxists so they wouldn’t sell out or concede without a fight.

      • @[email protected]M
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        Even if we sold out, at most they could get control over lemmy.ml and the git repository. Other instances are under no obligation to upgrade to new Lemmy versions, and could switch to a forked project if needed. The vast majority of Lemmy isnt under our control at all (which is the major difference compared to Reddit).

      • @[email protected]
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        226 days ago

        that’s only true for the minority of instances on the lemmverse and the american government likes to use “bread and stick” tactics to force people to do things.

        • Leraje
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          126 days ago

          Which will only matter if those instances are hosted in the US, which a lot aren’t.

            • Leraje
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              126 days ago

              At the moment, apart from Russia, you might’ve noticed the US is going through a bit of a sticky phase with its once-friends.

  • @[email protected]
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    526 days ago

    that is a very sudden increase, what happened then?

    I mean this whole chart is 3 months, that big increase is under a week

    • @[email protected]
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      226 days ago

      I’m thinking reddit is cracking down more of speech. Heavier moderation can lead to something like this.

    • Coelacanth
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      726 days ago

      Death of third-party Reddit apps due to exorbitantly increased prices for API usage.

        • Hyacin (He/Him)
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          225 days ago

          The fallout afterwards and the insane fascist backlash from the overlord is what drove me here. Also never looked back as far as daily use goes, but sadly searches and specific niche cases (SFW, lol) still bring me there occasionally.