This is an article from 2020 and I’m fairly sure it didn’t happen.

For me it doesn’t matter for lemmy as a whole. But if there is any truth to it, I want nothing with the instances that are administrated by these guys.

I have to ask.

Is there any truth to what has been said about Lemmy’s dev ?

Honestly, I respect their decision but at the same time I wonder why they didn’t create a standalone unfederated from the get go.

If you want to keep the community small and tightly nit it’s just not compatible with the federation system. Now people got invested in some beehaw communities only to end up disconnected from them.

Still, it’s not like there is a guide for this. We are all learning how to make the federation work. I hope we can keep it civil toward instances that choose to defederate.

We are all invested in the same thing: Making Lemmy successful.