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My lemm.ee instance costs around €150-200 per month (as per our admin) which is a medium sized instance but it is extremely well maintained. But it’s certainly not 100s of millions of dollars, that’s for sure.
If you are worried about your data falling into the hands of Meta, don’t worry, they already have it. Lemmy is incredibly easy to scrape by design.
What we should be more worried about is
- Whether we can become a better and more vibrant community
- Whether we can properly advertise that we don’t track users and don’t have ads
- Whether our instances can be equally performant
This is the only way we can have a steady influx of new users.
The purpose of the extinguish phase is simple; control
- All future content is under Zuck moderation policy
- Can change the narrative of the content as per the advertisers whim
- Authoritarian governments make nice customers when they want the content to be nudged a certain direction
- Why federate when you can easily scrape the data from the smaller instances? It’s free anyway
He will defederate only when he deems the data from the rest of the fediverse to be insignificant and the public reaction is small enough to control. I don’t see that happening in the near future at least.
I will agree that this is a cash-drain. I don’t know whether his investors will agree with this long-term play (he already burned his metaverse) but I think it’s possible. We should keep our guard up.
- Meta creates new instance with unlimited amount of resources (Embrace)
- New users join Meta’s fediverse because it’s advertised as the fastest Fediverse instance
- As Meta’s instance becomes popular, people joining other instances slows down. All niche communities are created in Meta
- “Whom would you trust? Zuck or some random Bob? Zuck made Facebook, he must be intelligent”
- Meta with it’s huge pool of devs create tools for mods and users but they only work for communities inside Meta (Extend)
- Users in external instances are frustrated when the tools don’t work. Some migrate to Meta.
- “Here is an easy way to migrate your Fedi account to Meta”
- Federation with external instances slows down because “of technical issues”.
- Meta states they will defederate from 3rd party instances
- Meta’s instance becomes the default since it has more users and more tools (which are proprietary by the way)
- Future users forget there were even external instances (Extinguish)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
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What is this? Some sort of one way road to Rome only?
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