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Who owns the Fediverse? I mean who owns and runs the hardware that runs this system? (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ininewcrow to c/main

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I've been talking to many people about the controversy with Reddit, why I left it and why I went onto Lemmy, Kbin and Mastadon instead. Some of my friends have commented that the control is still a problem as other platforms and it is all dependent on who owns the software, who owns the hardware, who are the admins, who are the moderators and which community or group has the most influence.

Who are these people that influence the most control on the fediverse? Are they Conservative? Are they Liberal? Are they Republican? Are they Democrat? Do they lean to the left of politics? to the right? or are they center? Are they even political? But also if they had to be would they easily or not so easily influenced?

So .. for the ELI5 version of the question ... Who owns the fediverse?

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[–] ininewcrow 3 points 2 years ago (40 children)

So the question just goes down one level .... who owns the instance? It's an important question as it then determines what influence can occur with any instance or any owner or owners of an instance.

Yes, no one can own the English language but the language can only occur because each and everyone of us own the hardware because the hardware is built into our bodies.

A fediverse instance has to be run from some location and by some hardware ... so the question I still wonder about is ... who owns any one instance ... who owns or controls Lemmy.world? who owns and controls lemmy.ca

[–] Woofcat 3 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Anyone can run one. Why not run one yourself for $20/month?

[–] ininewcrow 4 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Which leads to the question ... what if the owner no longer has any money to pay $20 / month ... what if his instance grows popular and now he has to pay $40/month $100/month $500/month ... I can appreciate the goodwill of people but whenever anyone puts lots of energy into any activity, eventually it costs money, time and effort ... all of which does not come for free and usually comes with a price

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, this was a very real issue for every random forum site back before the internet became consolidated. In some cases people would donate to keep the servers running, in other cases the ownership gets passed on to someone that could keep servers running. At least things are way cheaper to keep running nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yup or just websites in general until everyone wanted to move to FB...

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