Yeah but whats the difference between switching instances when the admins get totalitarian vs switching forums. I don’t really understand the benefit of Lemmy because it still encourages the same behavior as Reddit. Yeah you can move to another instance but that’s exactly like switching forums on the old web.

I believe what will eventually happen is all the biggest instances will have a small number of whitelisted instances that can be interacted with and that’s it. Everything will be tightly controlled among the larger instances.