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

I guess to put the question back to you, what would motivate you to pay $5/month or $50/year to support LemmyCa?

You’re also talking to people who also think it’s an important question. My answer is “I think we should all pay for it”.

[–] ininewcrow 4 points 2 years ago

What would motivate me is in understanding and knowing who the instance owner is and what kind of person they might be and what kind of instance they would like to run .... and all of it explained and presented to me as clearly and openly as possible.

The instance owner of lemmy.ca ... @smorks .. answered many of my questions today which motivated me to go ahead and sign up for a $5 a month contribution

I agree with you ... we should all pay for it, even if it is a small amount of a dollar a month .. across thousands of users, it would make a huge difference. If no one pays for it or not enough people pay for it ... money, greed, desperation, economy and finance will always creep in to corrupt what an instance owner will or won't do.