• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

      Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.

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        9 months ago

        I think the best option would actually be to see how many times we can pull the scam on him, before he realizes what’s happening. Oops, oh no Elon, people are using a different instance! Look at how many users they have (they are different users we swear)! Looks like you’re gonna have to buy that one now! and so on.

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        9 months ago

        Yeh, if he bought twitter for 44B, and there are 400 instances then that is still 110M per instance if he were to do that again.
        Even 10% of that amount is more than an instance is worth.
        Sales can be made pretty quickly when they are massively overvalued.