It is. But wait until Lemmy reaches the same level, it's just a matter of time. Any platform will end like this if it gets too large.
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Lemmy has different instances.
Instances will die. Someday lemmy.world may get there yes, but that's not all of Lemmy. The power lies with those willing to/capable of hosting an instance.
At some point the donations won't be enough anymore to cover the server costs (thanks to too many users generating too much data). At this point it can either shut down entirely or take the enshitification route. I expect the latter.
I mean, Lemmy security is decentralized. Support is crowd-sourced. There is no bot to help because there's nobody running a support team to try to build a bot.
That's not a bad thing. It is what it is. But Lemmy will never get to the same place because it isn't on the same trajectory.
It's decentralized for now. There is no guarantee it will stay this way forever.
Wouldn't it need to be something completely different then?
Not that much different. You know, software can be rewritten at any time.
Yeah I agree, now I just feel to just create disposable accounts and just browse and if something goes wrong, simply create a new one, rather having a long term commitment and acquiring data(subreddits and saved posed). It's not stable platform like Meta, to have information that would be needed or accessed later.
Creating different accounts is already necessary to keep the profile hunters away ("Oh, you're a part of that community?"). This wouldn't be necessary if you could lock out blocked users from your account.
Platforms like Facebook are indeed the only ones where you can put in as much data as you want, with all of it linked to one account. This is how they make money with.