Oh look, another personal attack. 🤷
If you didn't care, you wouldn't comment. I haven't read a single convincing argument by you. In fact you haven't made an argument at all. Instead you immediately resorted to personal attacks.
"If dessalines put their personal politics aside and stopped micromanaging their instance to push an agenda, we'd probably be on like v3 of Lemmy by now"
This post directly calls Dessalines out on not working enough on Lemmy and instead focusing on moderating his instance. I say, telling someone else how they should spend their free time is pure entitlement.
You don't like their modding and their ideology. That is a perfectly reasonable position. Your options are "stop using their instance", "stop using their software", or "fork their software and continue developing it without them". I chose option one and no longer engage with anything on .ml and the likes.
Also, calling me "very daft in verbal aptitude" only debases yourself. Name calling will never convince someone of your position.
None of what you said is in any way related to my comment. Still, FOSS doesn't give you any say in how the original project is developed. You especially have no say in how these developers spent their time. The developers built something for themselves and released it under a FOSS license in case somebody else finds it useful. You aren't owed anything. Your words might not even worthy of consideration to them. You can however create your own version of Lemmy. The license grants you these rights.
If anyone was looking for the exact quote its from The Two Towers, Chapter 2 "The Riders of Rohan".
“’Riders!’ cried Aragorn, springing to his feet. ‘Many riders on swift steeds are coming towards us!’
“’Yes,’ said Legolas, ‘there are one hundred and five. Yellow is their hair, and bright are their spears. Their leader is very tall.’
“Aragorn smiled. ‘Keen are the eyes of the Elves,’ he said.
“’Nay! The riders are little more than five leagues distant,’ said Legolas.
“’Five leagues or one,’ said Gimli; ‘we cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them here or go on our way?’
Just for completeness sake, the EU is currently in the process of introducing a similar system called ETIAS.
If you really do, blend the dried leaves from multiple plants. The psychoactive ingredients can be unevenly distributed throughout the plant. This means that you could unintentionally overdose without changing the amount you take.