While I’m no fan of the big tech hegemony, I am more than okay with multiple groups doing the same thing, or trying to iterate on the same concept.

Take Reddit and Lemmy for instance. Both are designed and structured similarly, with Lemmy iterating on Reddit. I wouldn’t consider it a bad thing, and I think they’re distinguishable enough from each other. It’s competition and alternatives like this that prevent one company or platform from dominating one “concept”

Take YouTube for example. None of the alternatives have nearly as much of a following, and I would be happy with someone “copying” YouTube and iterating on the concept to make it better and fix the major grievances. Whether it’s PeerTube or otherwise