Lemmy is still a good project despite the fact that the developers used it as a platform for pushing their political cause. Dismissing them out of hand because

Lemmy is still a good project despite the fact that the developers used it as a platform for pushing their political cause. Dismissing them out of hand because their principles differ to yours is not great either in my opinion. Personally I disagree with this stance in open-source, and I do take "freedom 0" seriously for my projects. At the same time I will be quite sad if they will end up being used by communities trying to disseminate unpalatable ideas. That's why the mechanism for establishing federating links between littr.me instances will be specifically opt-in. An instance will "follow" another instance, and that other instance will have to "accept" the follow, for content from the second one to propagate to the first. At the same time a user will be free to follow an instance and receive its content at any time, but it will not seep into the "federated" timeline that the instance presents to the other users. This behaviour is not set in stone yet - it's the last major hurdle - that and the 502s everyone is complaining about :D - before I feel confident to launch the platform in a more public manner - and it's different from what the major players in the fediverse world do at the moment, which is accrete instances as their users follow other users on those instances. This, in my opinion is a little irresponsible and has everything to do with the chase for the "network effect" and users numbers, which I personally see as the main down-fall of every social network that has been launched in the past 20 years.