Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way?
Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.
It can. Email is just a protocol and yet due to the our complacency it has been all but completely captured by Google and Microsoft
It would look much worse if microsoft had full control over email.
Maybe. But email is not exactly looking great these days