I still don’t know what Google+ was trying to be.

It would be nice if I could use (my name)@(mydomain) and just point (mydomain) at whichever public instance, without having to spool up my own instance.

If they find Lemmy “too hard to understand”, do we really want them here?

Censorship isn’t built in to the fediverse. You’re free to create your own instance and publish anything you want, completely exempt from any form of censorship.

!remindme 10 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

and they are all compatible.

This is not a given. Anyone can fork the protocol. If they are a large enough instance, they can include evil features in their fork, and block any instance that doesn’t use that fork. The users of competing forks then don’t have access, and their users move to a cooperating instance.

It has happened before; It will happen again.

It is an issue if .social ever decides to “Be evil”, and utilized their outsized influence over the rest of the 'verse.

Edit: The concept is known as “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”.

There appears to be a lack of “centrist”, non-political, or right-wing voices (and I don’t mean extreme MAGA-type views, but rather more moderate conservative positions).

They hang out in /modlog.