I would wager most of nowadays instances have either fallen into obscurity or just finished existing, I think we will see instancea more focused in scalability if thr fediverse grows in popularity, whoch will kind of dominate the space.

[–] Zstom6IP@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmyworld might survive i think.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

If I had to guess for a few I would say beehaw and lemm.ee will also still be alive in some way or another, but I dont think they will keep being as big in proportion to other instances as they are now.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and there will be 1000000s of different versions

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

10 of which will be enormous and will be the vast majority of what most users see.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. That's already happening now if you notice lemmy.world, mastodon.social, pixelfed.social, etc.

[–] josep@freiburg.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This ! Also, I'm kind of disappointed how many of my peers just waited for the #reddit #blackout to pass, so they can go back to buissness as usual. Supringsingly, to me, there are a lot of people who enjoy corponet just fine.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a temporary protest was not gonna do the trick. But hey, oftentimes, things gotta get worse before the get better.

It's just a matter of how much worse.

[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

With open source and interoperability, this is a good thing, because then you can choose the experience you wanna have. You're not bound to a single vendor-locked platform that's subject to continuity issues or a degraded experience that forces you to move elsewhere and start over in terms of following/followers. You simply pack up and migrate to another instance.