To be honest, it’s also very easy for a big corporation to take over Lemmy if they really try. They have the money to have fast servers and unlimited traffic and all the promotion, grassroots or otherwise. They don’t do it because right now Fediverse is a small collection of opinionated individuals and it’s not worth it trying to control it.
It’s great for us personally, but corporate social media is a danger to society that ought to be replaced by decentralized alternatives too.
To be honest, it’s also very easy for a big corporation to take over Lemmy if they really try. They have the money to have fast servers and unlimited traffic and all the promotion, grassroots or otherwise. They don’t do it because right now Fediverse is a small collection of opinionated individuals and it’s not worth it trying to control it.