Sure, technically. But good luck getting anyone to use your version over the mass adopted one. And good luck fitting back in if they decide to take their fork in a direction you dont like, which isolates your instance further and further.

Other than writing the software that all of those instances use to stay up to date and in contact with each other, regardless of their federation status.

They are talking about the people developing lemmy, not some petty fight with the admins of one specific instance.

Your comment was asking for links to the thread?

You didnt give an answer. You asked for other definitions, which the comments are filled with.

Tbh I kinda thought you didnt even know other people had alternate definitions

Hey nevermind, someone else actually gave a real answer

Do you need me to link you to other comments in this thread? Or are you not actually able to answer the question?

Is this a hard question to answer?

How is this an answer to my question? Multiple people in the thread have shown alternative definition sources

Why does OSIs definition matter over any other definition?