They buy out threats. Lemmy is not a threat. Lemmy will never be a threat. They’re big because during their start, they bought out anyone who could be a threat to them and now they have the network effect on their side.

So you want to go against the very idea of the Fediverse?

Lemmy will probably always be a niche thing and that’s okay. I don’t see it as a threat to Meta. Facebook has close to 3b users.

If Lemmy/Kbin become big in any way, for profit mega-corporations will be here. I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

You do know they can mine the other instances without making one themselves, right? They don’t need to make one to get your information. They probably already have it right now.

That is a good question, even if it’s obviously meant as a joke. The answer is yes. The latest look at age demographics has actually found the largest (at 30%) demographic is 25-34 year olds.

While our instances will have tens of thousands of people, theirs will have thousands of times more than that. They will continue to enjoy their walled garden if need be, and I guess that we will receive no benefit from the influx of people that could be convinced to move over.

Congratulations, I guess.