I don’t fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?
Also what’s the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?
How is that different than just making different smaller subreddits? I did notice some instances have themes, like tech or electronics. So is it that if one instance enshitifies there would be many other instances with tech related communities?
That’s pretty much it, yes.
There’s no central control.
In a practical sense this creates a better experience because if an instance does something like… allow too many bots, or include ads, everyone can just block them
Pretty much. By splitting the platform into smaller chunks (instances) you reduce the effect any one instance has on the rest of the platform. The price for this is convenience however over time people will find solutions for this.
Not subs, but the entire platform is Reddit can enshitify. More adds, no api, pushing nfts/crypto, etc.