Because Lemmy is open source, the only danger is a fork that removes compatibility. We’ve already dealt with this early on in the project with hexbear forking off (for good reasons, that instance has a lot of added features like pronoun flair and emotes). But that’s coming to an end soon as hexbear is working on upstreaming back to Lemmy’s main branch and should be open to federation this time next week.

Zero tolerance for fascists, and zero tolerance for state propagandists.

The fact that Lemmy is federated means you don’t need to be tolerant of anyone and if they want to keep spewing bigotry and lies. If you make it impossible for them to exist in an instance they’ll have to either give up or spool up their own instance that we can isolate.

Because running an instance requires some organization, maintenance, and money, anything that becomes too isolated from the rest of the fediverse will eventually die out.