I also do not personally believe in yet another slicing of the communities into different platforms, and if Sublinks aren’t integrated into Lemmy - requiring new communities or separate accounts - I will not be following along. Of course, somebody else could always take over my communities in that event, but I just wanted to let out my opinion on this.

Sublinks would work th same way as Mbin does. People on Mbin can currently interact with all the Lemmy content in a similar way Lemmy users do.

The reason this effort didn’t work and most of these communities reverted back was the extreme fragmentation and confusing nature of the early Fediverse.

To be fair, when the migration happened, Lemmy wasn’t ready. Federation was still flimsy, and LW was under constant DDoS attack. Lemmy is in a much better state now.

Thank you so much! We’re trying our hardest ❤️

At the end of the day we want to make sure the whole Fediverse keeps on growing in a safe way.

Sublinks will be API compatible from Day 1. So you will be able to interact just fine with Lemmy from it (and other activity pub servers, I believe). Also all mobile apps will work with it as well.

the political beliefs of the Lemmy developers never harmed any of the several opposition communities or servers

Hard disagree. Lemmy is full of authoritarian propaganda, and they’re quite happy to abuse and harass users. The devs might be on lemmy.ml instead of Hexbear, but they’re on the same team spreading their propaganda with a ML facade.

I’ve been told I’m “going to get the wall” (i.e. they’ll execute me against a wall, a death threat) and had an old account followed around with them downvoting everything I posted until I just abandoned it.

I still use Lemmy but I won’t even admit I use it unless it really cleans up a lot of the misinformation and hate, and I see certain devs as central to this problem.

I’ll happily move to a new platform to avoid them.