Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way?
Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.
if an admin becomes tempted with letting sponsored content to filter into the network, they will face defederation and an diaspora of their users.
that’s why it’s also important to support your server admin financially so they don’t have an incentive of looking for third party financing in the first place.