• @Aurix
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    1311 months ago

    I don’t see his it won’t happen here. The vote structure is very similar.

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      Yeah that is true, but it wasn’t as bad on reddit back in the day (as far as I remember), it seems to have happened after reddit went super-mainstream a few years ago. So I am hoping lemmy will be like that until it “potentially” becomes super popular lol

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        What if Lemmy becomes so successful and then it gets acquired by Reddit? Lol.

        Think of the big corps like Google, Facebook, etc. buying the competitors for their products.

        • @dissonant
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          811 months ago

          Then you can move to another instance or host your own. They can’t buy them all up.

          • @[email protected]
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            611 months ago

            Lmfao, imagine some corpo trying to buy up all the instances one by one while the users all migrate out of the instance immediately when that happens. That would be hilarious.

            • @[email protected]
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              311 months ago

              Ooh, i wanna see that happen, like reddit trying to do that and going bankrupt in the process

        • @[email protected]
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          11 months ago

          The federated decentralized nature of Lemmy and it being open-source means that when this happens the users laugh at whoever paid for an instance and celebrate whoever got the bag and all migrate to a new instance.

          See AdBlock -> AdBlock + -> Ublock -> Unlock Origin for a story of idiot capitalists donating massive sums of money only to buy a product that is quite literally drop-in replaceable by design… and Lemmy makes this process even easier than that.

      • qprimed
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        211 months ago

        karma gamification is pure, unadulterated evil.