I’d personally love to see some sort of integration with another federated chat service, like Matrix, to avoid reinventing the protocol. That said, you can already just make a matrix account and use that so I’m not sure how much value putting it directly into lemmy really adds.

I agree this discussion has nothing to do with the post. That said, I believe that just because copyleft does not remove all possibilities of misuse of your code, I believe it prevents the vast majority of them. Like you said, this is a freedom vs security issue and the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Copyleft is that correct middle, in my opinion.

I grew to love the idea of mastodon and other fediverse platforms, and I hope to see lemmy take over the hole that reddit currently fills. Reddit, with its independent communities, already seems like prime pickings for a fediverse platform.

Its no theft, it’s because those companies will take your code, use it to make themselves more money, and then use that money to continue oppressing you, restricting your freedoms, and spreading anti-open source propaganda as usual. If the code was copyleft, then you wouldn’t have to worry about(or at least worry less about) such a thing happening. What I have described above is already something that has happened and continues to happen to non-copyleft open source code.