Some people might find the answer to be obvious (yes) but I’ve rarely found it so. In fact, this is a question I often find in the linux community (regarding linux going mainstream, not lemmy) and people are pretty split upon it.
On one hand, you may get benefits like more activity, more content, more people to interact with, a greater chance you’ll find someone to talk to on some specific subject.
On the other, you could run into an eternal September like reddit, where Lemmy would lose its culture, and have far more spam and moderation issues.
I don’t know, what do you think?
I should have specified the context of building something to communicate on. I think my original point is that I’m excited for the properties that come with decentralization but I’m worried about it’s drawbacks. The grass is always greener, they say. Perhaps this decentralization all goes extremely well and we have many types of services that adopt the mentality. How long will it take before we see the disorganization, identify it as causing disconnection and separatism before pulling it all back together again?
I actually typed out a longer response before realizing you and I have the same belief. 😄 Though I haven’t yet determined if I can blanketly state all corporations are good or bad and I think I’m okay with staying on that fence. If anything corporations just reveal the properties of the people who run them when they have been blinded by a common goal–and how blinded (or not) they become.