Thankfully options like this are becoming available because it's really annoying to need to continually "digitally migrate" away as these corporate controlled websites become enshittified.

sweet summer child

CEO-proof sounds pretty, though there already exists the (perhaps broader) term “decentralised”.

One day the lemmy could just go closed source and sell to a company.

No it isn't. A company can be formed to be the steward of either or both the Lemmy source code or popular instances, which would be run by a CEO. I bet anything these corporate structures naturally form as people try to monetize the community and seek investment to gain control over the ecosystem.

We do have a term for that, it's a little bit of a trigger-word for certain demographics, but the correct term is socialism.

You’re posting this on lemmy.world. The owner of this instance, the biggest new instance, is literally building out a business of instance hosting. If this goes well, and his business grows, it will have chief executives.

You could also totally monetize hosting and build a business around that. There are already several private projects to build lemmy clients.

With federated sites you won’t have one CEO. If it takes off, we’ll have many CEOs. Trust me.

I've never thought of something being CEO-proof, but you're not wrong. Those CEO's did shit the bed in the most diarrhea way possible.

Not true. Email is basically owned by like five companies today. They just block every new host that tries to come up