You can charge for FOSS, but you can’t prevent the first person who buys your software from sharing it with everyone else for free.

Some GPL projects do it. If you find someone infringing, it’s easier to sue them if you have one copywrite holder instead of 100.

I saw several threads and may be mixing them up, but at one point someone dug up a link to an interview with desselines where he claimed that the uyghur genecide and the tiananmen square massacre were both hoaxes. There was also some worry in one of the discussions about security and the inability to delete comments. Also something about private messages being stored in plaintext on the server.

When the API thing happened, several of the subreddits I frequented had threads about finding an alternative to move to. Lemmy was mentioned, but but discounted early on.

One problem was that people found out the main dev was a tankie and didn’t want to be associated with the project because of that.

They ended up going to discords, or self hosted forums, or just staying on reddit.

If you’re looking to try something a little different, I recommend Guix.

It’s based around a nyx-style package manager written in scheme, which is also called guix. There’s an EDSL for writing package definitions. One interesting result about this is that the package manager has a REPL and a dedicated emacs mode

Instead of systemd, the PID1 process is called GNU Shepherd, and is also written in scheme.

Guix also has a strong emphasis on bootstrapping. You can build almost the entire system from source, relying on only a few binaries to start with.