unless one just feeds you tons of ads and harvests user data. That's one reason why Gab, which is a fork of Mastodon, was defederated from most of the 'verse before Gab just went ahead and turned federation off.
You could create a Lemmy instance that made it far less user friendly to connect to other communities, and "forced" other users to join its communities because 'that's where everyone is'. That's one of the reasons why there is so much fuss over how to handle threads.net when/if they turn on federation.
I think a big help to avoid this is if any "official" apps automatically point to something like lemmyverse search or Fediverse Observer rather than Join Lemmy or any singleinstance. Mastodon.socialwas already by far the largest before the only app named "mastodon" available in the major mobile repositories was built to automatically have you create an account on mastodon.social to "Make it easier for the normies".
The fact that I dont' even know the name of any lead developers of #lemmy as opposed to /u/gargon@mastodon.social is probably a good sign too.
Then again most nations aren't federated, as such don't have feds, so you should be able to figure that out but ;-)
I'm fairly certain the legal ramifications are the same whether It's GNU Social or Kbin. Sure platforms like Mastodon & Friendica give you more options for "defederating" "bad actors" than Pleroma or a NOSTR relay, but even that only does so much.
You never know. 20 years ago I didn't think my mom would ever figure out how to use email, let alone spend free time on an online social media platform. Nothing is forever.
I had heard of someone setting up their Friendica Forum with SMS and email add-ons (maybe they used IFTT? I'm not sure) so that their family members could participate in the "group chat" in the preferred way of each individual. They had indicated that eventually most of them switched to Friendica so that they could get the full experience. I've never done it though.
The Luck Luke animated films, released in the states on Disney homevideo with English dubbing in the 80s. I've had one sitting on 90% for well over a year.
unless one just feeds you tons of ads and harvests user data. That's one reason why Gab, which is a fork of Mastodon, was defederated from most of the 'verse before Gab just went ahead and turned federation off.
You could create a Lemmy instance that made it far less user friendly to connect to other communities, and "forced" other users to join its communities because 'that's where everyone is'. That's one of the reasons why there is so much fuss over how to handle threads.net when/if they turn on federation.