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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.

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

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Lmfao, imagine some corpo trying to buy up all the instances one by one while the users all migrate out of the instance immediately when that happens. That would be hilarious.

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Ooh, i wanna see that happen, like reddit trying to do that and going bankrupt in the process

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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.

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