Reddit’s cofounder said that at first the company felt like ‘a homework assignment that got out of hand’ rather than a business::Reddit’s cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.
Eh, kinda, but I see Lemmy as multiple centralized services, not actually decentralized. All of the content I view is stored on my instance, even if it was created elsewhere. This means it’s going to have issues scaling because there will be a ton of copies of everything throughout the fediverse.
A properly decentralized service won’t have so much duplication, it’ll have just enough redundancy so it’s not at risk of failure if too many nodes fail.