What documentation do you need other than knowing the config fields?
Most other Fediverse platforms use the same license. Its the only logical choice if you want to prevent corporations from taking your code and making a profit with it. AGPL is essentially the same as GPL, with the addition that code changes also need to be published if you provide the software on a server and not on a users own device.
Thats true, but community migration seems complicated to implement so it will have to wait.
The name is explained in the docs. We worked in Lemmy fulltime for over three years now (and around one year before that in our free time).
That sounds like its something for instance admins to handle, nothing we as developers need to care about. Maybe we should add a privacy policy for lemmy.ml but thats it.
I dont follow /c/worldnews so I dont see much of that. Also hexbear is federating now, so it might easily swing back the other way again.
With some other projects yes, but Mastodon not really. They often implement things in weird or nonstandard ways, and expect everyone else to deal with it. They even wrote an entire implementation for groups which is intentionally incompatible with Lemmy or other existing implementations. At least they had the good sense not to merge that.
I have been interested for a very long time in decentralized software as an alternative to Google, Facebook etc. For my bachelor thesis I created a decentralized instant messenger using bluetooth connections. However it didnt go anywhere because its impossible to find enough nerds irl who want to test such a project. Thats when I realized that its much more effective to develop something that can be used by everyone across the internet, as its much easier to find some initial users.
Luckily I found Mastodon and used that for some years because I loved the federated architecture. However I realized that the twitter-like format isnt for me, its too focused on individuals and makes it very hard to follow specific topics. Plus it leads to pointless and annoying drama all the time. Thats when I found out about Dessalines starting Lemmy, and was immediately excited to start contributing.
No such tools, and Im not sure what might help in that regard.
Lemmy and the Fediverse are fundamentally different platforms, so I doubt that it will devolve in that direction. Reddit as a for-profit company makes money from ads, so all they care about is "engagement" which increases when people get angry. Lemmy on the other hand is run by volunteers who will not tolerate that. These volunteers have the power to ban or block toxic actors and I expect that they will make use of that power (see beehaw). Its more likely that there will be multiple parts of Lemmy with different levels of toxicity which are loosely connected. Then users can choose if they rather want a harshly moderated instance like beehaw, something loosely moderated or anything in between.
I use Telegram. The company is based outside the EU/US, so its unlikely that it would give any data to my government.
He has done a lot for open source, its hard to imagine where we would be today without his contributions. Hes also a weird and controversial figure, but I couldnt care less about that pointless drama.
What is a mess about it? Its certainly much easier than installing without Docker.