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What makes this website resistant to enshitrification? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by catgirl2005@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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If Facebook and Reddit and Twitter are all going downhill, what leads people to believe that websites like Mastadon or Lemmy won't go the same way eventually?

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[–] catgirl2005@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but they can’t just drop $44 billion and nonconsensually steal the website from every user.

Thanks for the detailed response! Sorry for the dumb question but: Why can't someone buy Eugen Rochko's company for $44 billion?

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Way outside my wheelhouse so take the following with a grain of salt, but TMK the company that "owns" Mastodon is a non-profit LLC named Mastoton gGmbH and probably isn't technically worth anything by itself. Not that they would ever sell to you, but by purchasing, you wouldn't own the codebase or any of the instances. The community would immediately fork the codebase, most of the members of the Mastodon gGmbH would leave and reincorporate as a new entity and continue their work on the codebase, and life would go on without much of a hitch.

Edit: Here is the official post that Mastodon made about registering as a gGmbH, which includes some important info about how a gGmbH works, and how it includes some some restrictions that really prevent any value from being extracted out of a potential purchase.

[–] catgirl2005@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This makes sense, thanks!