We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t worry too much about that. A lot of the beginning of Lemmy was making sure we fostered and attracted a community that held anti-racist principles.

    All the biggest lemmy servers hold those principles, and pretty quickly block any “voat-like” instances that pop up, as has happened in the past few years. Eventually those instances stagnate and die off.

    A similar thing happened with mastodon iirc, truth.social was trump’s mastodon startup, and most of the fediverse blocked it very quickly.