• faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    Corporations are coming, it’s inevitable, but at least this time we won’t have to deplatform ourselves to have a sensible discussion.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 years ago

      Someone will try and justify corporate investments. And once they get in, they will infest. They ALWAYS play the long game.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        I agree that they will deliberately try to infiltrate, but corporations are notorious for never playing the long game.

      • monotrox@discuss.tchncs.de
        10·
        2 years ago

        That is why lemmy is decentralized, no one can buy every single instance. and even when a corporation buys the codebase of lemmy, another person can come in and create their own platform that is still compatible

      • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        Yeah there is, governments too. It’s not super widespread but they do have a presence.

        Due to how federation and anti-viral Mastodon is though, they can’t hijack trends and stuff so a lot will most likely never come.