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Any evidence of this? https://infosec.pub/instances defederates from Lemmy.ml and is doing just fine
I think by "pulling support" he means that they will no longer support the instance if there are bugs or problems occurring. If you're technically savvy enough, you can probably get by without their support.
The Threadiverse Admin group has all the admins of the biggest instances , that's probably more than enough to troubleshoot any issue
Also if you're experiencing a but in the software itself, there are high chances that it's there for everyone, so Lemmy devs will probably want to know about it
I don't really consider infosec.pub to be a "major" instance, it's only at ~300 MAUs iirc, by "major" I'm thinking .world or SJW or blahaj
In any case, I'm almost positive I've seen it mentioned publicly in one of those big threads, maybe the donation ones a few months back. It was also told to me point blank by an admin of one of said major instances in a DM, but I am unsure how or even if I can release that considering it was told to me in private
Here is an example of both Dessalines and Nutomic helping troubleshooting Lemmy.cafe , which defederates from .ml
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5112
So there are a few possible reasons I can see with this
So it doesn't change anything in any of the 3 scenarios, until the last one, and even then there's still no documented evidence of the Lemmy devs not helping ever happening?
What truly matters is that major instances have this fear to begin with, not whether or not it will happen.
Then why don't those admins switch to Piefed if that's a fear? It's been around for a while now, and it works as well as Lemmy.
While we are talking, why haven't you switched to a Piefed account yourself?
Probably because it's not easy to transfer entire instances? I don't know dude.
I don't care to switch. Lemmy is dead
If such comment was made it would have probably created a lot of dedicated posts
If an admin of any instance got threatened that way they should probably release the evidence as this would probably encourage people to move to Piefed.
Sorry if I phrased it weirdly, I didn't mean to imply that threats had been made (which I mean, dessalines is smarter than that, because like you said it would blow the Lemmy-verse up if he actually made a threat), but rather it's a fear that's out there.
But like I said, I have confirmation of that fear in a DM from a major instance admin. Whether or not that fear is founded and justified or not, is up for debate. But it exists and it's a factor in the decision making process
Then why doesn't that admin switch their instance to Piefed? It's been stable for a while now