I’ve been thinking about this lately.

You’re right in that there’s no central “authority”, but lemmy has become very centralised with all the content on a few big instances in fiefdoms controlled by a few mods who seem to be weirdos with too much time on their hands.

I guess the benefit is, if an instance or a mod does something really egregious there’s the potential to just move to another instance.

I think we need another few iterations of exodus from other platforms because of whatever shitstorm for lemmy to develop its own vibrance.