How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don’t know what that would be right now.
Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything, or (like has happened with other, older monopolies) be broken up during a dynastic feud. I see some strong parallels to how Linux has outgrown proprietary alternatives over the decades, and arguably it’s even harder for an OS.
The number of people who use it decreases when the number of people who stop using it over some period of time is greater than the number of people who join
Yes. Go up to someone on the street and ask what Lemmy is.
That’s fine, though, we’re not going anywhere, and we can only grow.
it can easily shrink
How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don’t know what that would be right now.
Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything, or (like has happened with other, older monopolies) be broken up during a dynastic feud. I see some strong parallels to how Linux has outgrown proprietary alternatives over the decades, and arguably it’s even harder for an OS.
The number of people who use it decreases when the number of people who stop using it over some period of time is greater than the number of people who join
Yeah, but like, I gave some actual reasons why that probably won’t happen.
That hasn’t been the trend though.