Trying to wrap my head around the fediverse. Is each instance like another person with a server? Could that person just shut it down whenever they wanted to?
Are there any companies that have invested in hosting Lemmy/ other fediverse servers?
Sorry I’m sure I messed up some of the terminology, I hope my questions make sense! I love the idea of the fediverse as I understand it, but I like to dig into these details.
Ah Plus… I liked Plus.
If only Google had made it available to more people sooner rather than having that dumb invite system.
I genuinely think they could have wiped FB out. Whether Google are any better is another question of course.
Google could have also made a competent messaging service to compete with iMessage but just… Didn’t until like 2019