I feel like there’s too many things named Proton right now.

Lemmy is still very much in its infancy. It’s not even reached version 1.0 yet. While we’ve all been on here for a while now, its future is still very much uncertain and hasn’t seen anywhere near the adoption that Mastodon and other microblog Fedi platforms have.

I don’t think the president is using DMs.

Sure, but Fedi Garden is seen as the de facto “primary” hub for this sort of information. There’s a certain power dynamic at play in this sort of situation that is being weaponized.

It’s like if LemmyWorld decided “We’re exclusively a furry community now”, after being the “main” Lemmy instance. Sure, they’d be within their right to do so, but it does a disservice to the Fediverse at large when things that can be seen as critical parts of the Fediverse’s social infrastructure are suddenly slanted in any one particular way.

Seems like a way of bullying community leaders into running their instances how Fedi Garden feels is appropriate. Which is intrinsically against the nature of the Fediverse, in that instances are meant to have their own autonomy.

Fedi Garden’s position in this space is to be a directory, not a dictator. This feels like an overstep.

What does that have to do with anything?