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Who owns the Fediverse? I mean who owns and runs the hardware that runs this system? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ininewcrow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter who the devs are because the code is open source. The beauty of the fediverse is that nobody controls it.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open source just means that they're not doing stuff behind your back that you're not unaware of like collecting your data. I don't think that means that the mods of a specific instance can't arbitrarily ban users or delete comments and fuck with communities within their instance.

[–] hardypart@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

You really need to seperate the development of Lemmy from administrating a Lemmy instance. The political views of the devs don't matter at all. You don't support these by using Lemmy.