The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.
I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.
We didn’t just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.
I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can’t read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.
I don’t want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.
The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.
Welcome to the Defediverse.
*giving control to the users.*Like by deciding democratically how the instance should be managed?
You don’t understand how decentralization works if you think Meta or whatever can take control of a decentralized platform like Lemmy and the point still stands, you’re pro defederation if it fits your (uninformed) values but against it if it doesn’t but you create a post against defederation which is basically virtue signalling that you’re so pro free speech and individual responsibility when the truth is you’re just an hypocrite.
And of course democracy includes sharing our opinions about how to run things.
And if you don’t think corporations can undermine grass roots movements then you’re the one who’s uninformed.
Opinions have been shared and a vote happened and you’re asking for the possibility to vote on something be removed. How democratic of you.
Decentralization prevents corporations from doing anything against it, they can create their own instance if they want to, it will never prevent people from just creating a branch of the whole project, that’s the beauty of open source code and decentralization. Lemmy turns to shit? Take the code and create Lemmu with a Lemurian as a mascot to replace it, that’s all.