Let’s say Lemmy acquires the critical mass of users, continues to gain in popularity. Eventually someone will offer a large sum of money, the platform grows, new owners look towards an IPO, the goals shift, yadayada… How is different this time?

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    21 year ago

    A cool thing with free software is that everybody can fork-it at any time, I am not sure who owns IP over the source code, but even if a proprietary fork happens, people will still be able to use/maintain the “free version”. It worked for GNU/Linux or for Mastodon so why not for lemmy ?

    Moreover, it’s decentralized. One instance admin can decide to rely on ads or even sell some user data, and may-be it’s a valid way to fund an instance. However, user are free to choose another instance relying for example on donation.