As soon as things are big enough here, there will be the potential to profit, and they'll find a way.

Fediverse can only win by keeping its ground, by speaking about freedom, morals, ethics, values

There are only a small core of people (ok, a lot of people, but a very small percentage of social media users) who value those things enough to push back effectively against a glitzy, well-funded corporate implementation.

This was a fantastic read. Thank you so much for sharing it! I’ve started my own lemmy instance in hopes of making an instance available for “everybody” in my region, having the local culture as our common ground. But this helped me realize that it might maybe need a thought or two before pushing forward. Those who I thought would be a part of it aren’t those who would maybe want to give up traditional service for one fighting for freedom, ethics and morals.