I mean, there are already 3rd party clients and when reddit goes through with their plan a lot of redditors will migrate.
No, because competition is built in by federation.
Let’s say a major instance does some BS like reddit… we just export our accounts to another instance, and bam, they have no power over us.
For an individual instance, yeah. But one of the points of federation is to make it easier for users to simply move to an alternative instance if something like that starts to happen. It greatly reduces vender lock-in.
Big instances, but not the federation as a whole.
I mean the chances of that happening may occur to some instances, however because Lemmy is decentralized, it will probably not happen to the whole thing and I’m confident in the leadership of Lemmy.
No. Mastodon has 9 million users and is doing fine. There are other federated projects like Matrix and PeerTube which also have more users than Lemmy. Unlike Reddit they don’t belong to some monopoly that could take them offline.
No, because federated.
As there are individual servers, if one server sold out users could move to others, and continue, no?
