Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…
LW works great, and it has most of the communities so most new people join there
LW starts running Lemmy + some extra features on top
time passes
LW closes off, but it still has the mass of users and new features, and most people don’t care about what this might mean because it still “works great”. There’s not enough friction to jump instances
I think the concern is more
That’s why I’m already on different instances, it’s not hard at all to switch and compare.
But most users won’t care to do so.