• EnglishMobster@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        You still can go to an instance like Lemmy.world (linked in the OP, actually). Those aren’t controlled by Lemmy’s devs.

        The link is just a little confusing because it’s a Lemmy.world link looking at a discussion on Lemmy.ml, but it’s not something on Lemmy.world itself.

        Lemmy.world is run by the Mastodon.world guys, who are on the level. Lemmy.world is a separate instance with no ties to the maintainers of Lemmy proper. If the Lemmy devs ever do anything off-the-rails, then Lemmy itself can be forked into its own project.

        A great example - you know Truth Social, yeah? It’s actually part of Mastodon. They took Mastodon’s code, forked it, and put a new skin on top of it. Obviously Truth Social and Mastodon despise each other, but because it’s all open-source there’s nothing Mastodon can do about Truth Social existing.

        (But yes, those associations is one reason why I’m here on Kbin and not on Lemmy.)