I think it’s very concerning, but not exactly surprising. It makes sense that there ends up being market leaders for digital services, because they can provide economies of scale much more than traditional services. As another commentor pointed out, they’re are alternatives, even just for back-up service providers, but most sites don’t pay for them.

What was more personally distressing was I realised how much I rely on lemmy when my instance, and backup instance, both went down. I’m not sure where I’d go for immediate news, especially about something niche like “why is lemmy down?”. I don’t use other social media and I found myself checking r/redditalternatives just to see if there was some info about the shutdown. Obviously, it was useless because reddit…