Just thinking about any vulnerabilities for decentralization. Sure, everyone owns their own server node but what IF everyone was bought out?
Just thinking about any vulnerabilities for decentralization. Sure, everyone owns their own server node but what IF everyone was bought out?
This would be inconvenient but recoverable.
Lemmy (the software itself) is licensed under the AGPL, which is similar to the license the Linux kernel is released under. It’s a copyleft license; no one can close the source code. People will be able to read, use, modify and run Lemmy forever.
If Meta or Alphabet or any of the other faceless holding companies behind the world’s biggest brand names were to buy individual instances from their admins, nothing stops people from just spinning up new independent instances or defederating with the compromised ones.
Yea ok, that makes sense when you put it into terms of licensing. Thanks for taking the time to answer. It would definitely be inconvenient, though.