“Free” is a simplification. Bad actors can hurt lemmy - however it is also easier for the individual to fight back. If an instance acts unfairly, an individual can choose to ignore that instance and not lose all of Lemmy - they would still have access to all other instances.

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It is Facebook Meta. The why is harder. I guess they want a piece of the Reddit pie, or want to take over the fediverse.

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