I am not criticizing them, I’m just out of the loop.

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    1 year ago

    If you don’t understand why that is not true of things like lemmy, you do not understand lemmy

    lemmy cannot be bought in the same way that Linux cannot be bought. You may buy an instance (or a distro) but that doesn’t (and can’t) get you the whole lot. Anyone could start a new instance, thwarting your bid to collect all the users