Not that it's safe to use Lemmy to organize anything real, but at least I know they aren't leaking my IP to atomwaffen or those Florida Nazis.

Eh, well, as long as you don't count literally the very first instance our admins decided to federate with and immediately air out their discord drama with.

I will absolutely figuratively die on the hill that this was a mistake from day one.

That's why I said that I understand how it's important for auditing. You can publish the code and still protect it with copyright. I suppose someone could still steal it, but that's a few more hoops to jump through.