I think that's a personal preference. From what I've heard, the devs used to be tankies (fuck those), other devs distanced themselves (I think?), tankies made Lemmy.ml (you can tell by the amount of bullshit on there, lol), some instances defederated from it (good) and now...I think we just go on? Idk, I'm probably completely wrong about that, please correct me. Anyway, fuck tankies.
I really like Lemmy. I probably won't leave. Sure, Mastodon works ig, but I'm not a Twitter person. I much prefer the Reddit-style...style of Lemmy. So, forgive me for this, but I'm staying.