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There’s a lot of evidence to be worried about this.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
I've seen that article and no, we still don't need to be worried. Just defederate and that's all. As evidenced by the final paragraph:
Just keep using it as the community building tool it is, defederate and protect those communities and we're golden.
Everybody relax.
Yeah, it is very possible for us to not let Meta win. Acting like the Fediverse is doomed isn't productive at all.
It only doesn't matter if the majority of us are conscious of it and want to stop it. We need to place sanctions in a true democracy, that's not easy and it requires everybody be educated.
We're lucky that we're still in the tail end of the early adopters phase so most people in the fediverse will be open to gaining education. Also both sides of the heavily populated fediverse (Lemmy and mastodon)* feel recently betrayed by corporate greed.
All to say, it won't be a big deal as long as most people know what's going on. (I didn't before reading this.)
*Not sure where to put kbin