I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you’re told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you’re going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it’s just vulnerable and no one cares bc Lemmy is small and unimportant. But yeah, I’ve been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn’t notice right away, so lots of instances had already applied the broken update…

I think it’s a bit unfortunate that the biggest instance does these kinds of trade-offs. Sure it’s going to help some users with outdated clients. But probably at the cost of security, and if the Lemmy project makes some progress, or fixes bugs, that means most users on the entire platform won’t benefit from that. Until maybe months or years later.