One of my biggest turn off for reddit was how large brands would take control of affiliated reddit groups or would make reddit groups.

Whereas here right now if there’s a community for google/X/Facebook etc etc I’d imagine it would be unfiltered, pointing out the issues of those brands, as well as the good which all leads to dialogue.

I fear that as the fediverse evolves and becomes a viable platform for larger corporate brands, the issue with reddit will extend across to Lemmy, where posts about general dislike/ whistle blowing could be deleted by mods as a result of corporate interests.

What could I do or the greater community do to mitigate these issues. Or is it even a worthy concern.

Let get a dialogue going :)

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      9 months ago

      Threads should be Lemmy compatible. So in that sense Facebook already has an instance. The result is that many instances blocked them right away.

      In the end I think this will all grow organically. Some companies might opt to host their forums on their own Lemmy instance. But that shouldn’t keep other instances from having their own communities about the same topics. More or less like it already is today.

      And there already is drama with the non-commercial instances. People will gravitate to the communities they like and stay away from those they don’t. That should always be the case.