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[–] BrewJajaja@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if Lemmy becomes so successful and then it gets acquired by Reddit? Lol.

Think of the big corps like Google, Facebook, etc. buying the competitors for their products.

[–] riseuppikmin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The federated decentralized nature of Lemmy and it being open-source means that when this happens the users laugh at whoever paid for an instance and celebrate whoever got the bag and all migrate to a new instance.

See AdBlock -> AdBlock + -> Ublock -> Unlock Origin for a story of idiot capitalists donating massive sums of money only to buy a product that is quite literally drop-in replaceable by design... and Lemmy makes this process even easier than that.

[–] dissonant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Then you can move to another instance or host your own. They can't buy them all up.