Right now, I'm feeling concerned and wondering what is going on in regards to Sublinks here, since I have created a community for discussion on koalas about a week ago on here and have started and been doing work on it recently. But now I'm hearing about Sublinks and feeling concerned if I created it on the wrong instance or the wrong platform since I'm now just recently hearing about it. I'm just feeling worried and wondering whether or not if I should do anything or not.
You know what, I've read your blog post linked to another reply and understand your reasoning more and it now seems like a much less hostile project than it was initially coming across, which at the end of my previous comment had started to look a bit like EEE to me. I'm a lot less negative towards the project now I know you guys have attempted to contribute to lemmy unsuccessfully in a few ways.
I'm still a little sad that a cooperative solution couldn't be worked out with the Lemmy guys, as more people pulling the same way is always better than two groups pulling in different directions IMO (even if they're currently aligned today), especially for relatively small projects like these. But if that wasn't ever gonna happen for whatever reason, I get the reason for a split.
FWIW, the language doesn't really matter if it does the job effectively, it wouldn't have been my choice, but obviously I'm not the one building it so that doesn't really matter. I've been "lucky" enough to have seen multiple horror shows in perl which are still in production today and serve miraculous amounts of traffic—again it absolutely wouldn't be my choice, but it does the job.
So good luck then, it will be interesting to see how things develop with this project. I'll edit out the last line of my previous comment.