Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…
I think it could to a small degree but not to the degree Reddit went abusive to its users. If lemmy.world got weird, I’d just leave and go to another one. I don’t really care all that much what instance I’m on except that the trolls are kept down and the front page posts a lot of diverse stuff.
LW works great, and it has most of the communities so most new people join there
LW starts running Lemmy + some extra features on top
time passes
LW closes off, but it still has the mass of users and new features, and most people don’t care about what this might mean because it still “works great”. There’s not enough friction to jump instances
I think it could to a small degree but not to the degree Reddit went abusive to its users. If lemmy.world got weird, I’d just leave and go to another one. I don’t really care all that much what instance I’m on except that the trolls are kept down and the front page posts a lot of diverse stuff.
I think the concern is more
That’s why I’m already on different instances, it’s not hard at all to switch and compare.
But most users won’t care to do so.