The difference is you cited software projects, not hosted infrastructure. A person can contribute to a FOSS dev project and not incur expenses dependent on end-users activity. Hosting a fediverse application isn’t like that, somebody has to pay for the hosting and the hosting expenses will scale with user activity.
“Created for Lemmy” isn’t really a thing, all you need is to implement the ActivityPub protocol. Whether or not it has any relationship to Lemmy has no bearing on if it can talk to instances using Lemmy’s implementation.
Sure but anyone can implement something using the activityPub spec and federate with other instances regardless of what flavor they’re using.
not sure that solution is a good one for this environment. I’m new but from what i’ve seen the concept of moderation is different and your solution is trying to engineer a reddit-like moderation design to an architecture that is fundamentally not reddit-like. Moderation here is at the instance level, not the community level.
there are are lot of idiots, a lot. I don’t know how to fix that, so I just ignore them and move on.
And what is it with the narrow aspects? I totally get the need for mobile support, but the default desktop view looks like it’s trying to play nice with old 4:3 aspects. If that’s the root design goal, I sure hope we can let that design goal die. In a 16:9 maximized window there is so much wasted real estate it pains me.