I doubt it, somehow I feel it’s going to be even worse without him. I get a very Dorsey exits Twitter vibe from this, and that’s not a good thing…
If you can’t replace it, conquer it? :-)
I think something like adding movie cataloguing functionality to https://inventaire.io could be easier…? They claim to support ActivityPub too as of now…
The main branch actually compiles and is active. All it means is that you’re not going to see branched-off releases with neatly written up changelogs very often.
The developers of Lemmy the software have no power to take anything down, provided you set up your own server and host the Lemmy software yourself. Any hosted server (lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml… etc, ) can decide on their own rules they wish their users to follow though.