This is where I come back to pointing that your arguing in bad faith here.
You're trying to argue to absurdity.
Here I have a concrete example of a group that is explicitly politically extreme. They are explicitly in contrast to the values of open source.
Linux, meanwhile, is an absolutely massive project with billions of eyes on it every day which is head and resisted multiple attempts to compromise it.
I'm confident that the software I'm running still has bugs holes and inroads to malicious actors.
But, like you said, you basically can't use a computer if you want to avoid them all together.
So you avoid the obvious cases, you do what you can, and you keep on going forward.
Same story with buying stuff made in China. You don't do it when you can, you do it when you have to. You support laws and regulations that encourage people to move away from it.
Be pragmatic, focus on what you can accomplish, and don't worry about being perfect.
Is there a single other piece of open source software that you feel this strongly about? Just one example?
What exactly does “bad faith” mean?
Edit:
To make myself clear: You propose that your issue with the Lemmy software is based on your strongly held principles. I have asked you about how those strongly held principles apply to your usage of software.
If your principles only apply to one piece of software, my response is that they are not principles at all and that you are working backwards from not liking Lemmy and creating justifications to support that. My point is that your argument appears to be either
You're trying to argue to absurdity.
Here I have a concrete example of a group that is explicitly politically extreme. They are explicitly in contrast to the values of open source.
Linux, meanwhile, is an absolutely massive project with billions of eyes on it every day which is head and resisted multiple attempts to compromise it.
I'm confident that the software I'm running still has bugs holes and inroads to malicious actors.
But, like you said, you basically can't use a computer if you want to avoid them all together.
So you avoid the obvious cases, you do what you can, and you keep on going forward.
Same story with buying stuff made in China. You don't do it when you can, you do it when you have to. You support laws and regulations that encourage people to move away from it.
Be pragmatic, focus on what you can accomplish, and don't worry about being perfect.