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Hmmm… I feel like this is only half the picture.

Lemmy, as mentioned, don’t have an incentive for such things. But also very importantly, no single instance would get away with spam/ad accounts. If one instance becomes a neucianse (to tired, can’t spell), other users/instances will block it outright.

This already happens to instances with high concentrations of stuff people don’t want to interact with. I don’t see how it wouldn’t happen to a commercialised instance as well?

While thinking about it, this is exactly what happened to Facebooks “Threads”. The whole point is decentralisation, so no one wants to federate with big company instances.

And commercialisation in the software for Lemmy is, while not impossible, very much neutered. If someone were to push features for ads or something else shittifying into the code, about 100 devs would immediately fork the codebase right before that change and carry on the work for an ad free decentralised platform.

Not saying Lemmy is perfect, but it has self-correcting properties in many layers that prohibit a general enshittification of Lemmy as a whole.