Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won’t be evil, but let’s be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.
This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This comment here is a simple analogy if you can’t be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922
Imo it depends on how it grows, especially how much decentralization it can preserve.
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Decentralization may be its biggest weakness. It requires too much overhead.
What happens when 100’s of instances are stood up for the purpose of fragmenting or taking over? Or META just starts buying federated instances? The burden will fall on each individual instance owner to try and keep up. Ain’t happening.
Wtf are you talking about? Decentralization is the one thing that separates the fediverse from existing social networks. It’s the entire point of this whole endeavour. It’s even what happens in your failure scenarios, because the problem with someone taking over everything is the centralization it introduces.