Second, why there are 3 different, basically inter-compatible projects out there, what are the benefits of each one over the others? and why does Lemmy prevail all of them.

*i will be using feddit as a umbrella term for all the reddit-like fediverse.

I don't have much of a technical Background to know how this things work under the hood, but I'm quite curious of where all of this is heading.

I see a lot of awesome features locked away in these other projects that would be just nice if it was standard to have them, like piefed's hashtag-like system that allows people to seek things by topic instead of going to a specific community hosted in a specific instance, it would instantly fix the fragmentation problem across feddit, lol.

How the future of feddit will be? will be all be using Lemmy or other specific project, or instances will use whatever project they like and they will be cross compatible enough that it won't be much of a deal what project is running underneath?

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 4 hours ago

I call it commitment and willinness to place your nuts on the line.

What skin in the game is required from someone to create an account on lemmy.world or mastodon.social? Conversely, what type of "bad consequences" is there for some admin that sets up an instance and fails to manage it properly? There isn't any.

Instances provide governance in a natural, organic way

There is nothing organic about instances because there is no natural limit to how big they can get. The cost per user on an instance grows sub-linearly with the amount of users in an instance. This is why we are ending up with this power-law distribution and the majority of users go to the "flagship" instances and the minority spread around on micro-instances.

You are joining a social group. This is the natural order of things.

Social connections and the relationships are only meaningful if they have some shared context. Your family/extended family, the people you've went to school with, your swimming team mates, your co-workers, your neighbors, etc. But once we go past a certain scale (Dunbar's Number) people start seeing individuals and just treat everyone else as interchangeable masses of crowds.

Don’t like it, or want to tinker? Spin up your own.

The absolute majority of people are only looking at social media platforms as a means to something. They don't care whether they found the information they were looking for on Reddit, or lemmy.world or piefed.social. They don't care if they are avoiding boredom at the subway by scrolling videos on Instagram, TikTok or loops. If we keep demanding people to understand the power dynamics each instance just before joining or tell them, they will just turn their heels over to the status quo.