I thought this would be good to share, its an excerpt from an unpublished interview written in december 2020 about Lemmy’s origins and goals. …
Our comrade Dessalines has great insight into the rise and fall of Reddit and where he expects Lemmy to fall in with the Fediverse and away from corporate social media
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I believe Hexbear devs were trying to backport Hexbear-exclusive features (like emojis) back to mainline Lemmy and get federation "for free".