Platform gets popular. Sub mods are powertripping bastards and don’t know how to handle the influx. Ban all the good guys. Leave all the bad actors. Things start to go to shit. Owners/operators behind the scene are also powertripping bastards and react to the chaos by having knee jerk reactions and locking the platform down, which drives the userbase away. The end. New platform.
Lemmy is a little more immune to it on a sitewide basis, but I’m seeing the enshittification of individual subs accelerate already.
Oh well. Fark had a good run. Reddit’s had a good run. Someday Lemmy will have had a good run.
'Tis the way of things.
Platform gets popular. Sub mods are powertripping bastards and don’t know how to handle the influx. Ban all the good guys. Leave all the bad actors. Things start to go to shit. Owners/operators behind the scene are also powertripping bastards and react to the chaos by having knee jerk reactions and locking the platform down, which drives the userbase away. The end. New platform.
Lemmy is a little more immune to it on a sitewide basis, but I’m seeing the enshittification of individual subs accelerate already.
Open source rules… If a sub turns to dust, anyone who cares can just pick up and start a new one.
Seems like a pretty human pattern - “This looks like a good place to propagate my POV. Anybody I don’t agree with gets kicked.”