Corporate online social networks ultimately aim to increase profits, so they inevitably enshitify themselves. Meanwhile, the federated system allows users to switch instances or even create their own should their current main instance become unappealing. It also allows users to join several instances simultaneously, allowing users to tailor their experiences based on purpose and privacy.
all anyone does on lemmy is complain about hexbear, .ml, lemmygrad when they’re essentially sanctioned from the rest of Lemmy. There are so many instances that have defederated them and you cannot even respond to Linux post without being told to fuck off with a hexbear.net account. Like why do you feel the need to complain and yell at clouds. The entirety of liberal Lemmy is on board with you and you choose to be annoyed. So typical.