I am not unpleased to see that we could contribute to this #FediGrowth for #Kbin a bit with our discussion about the ethics underlying software development and the trust devs may or may not merit.
In the case of #Lemmy, they clearly don't.
Even having a distinct instance or even your own does not remedy that issue.
Only a #LemmyFork and defederating from the devs at least two instances would be a solution.
(see thread and convos)