It’s already lost. Lemmy is mainly now just users that hate reddit (the company itself). It doesn’t have the same far-left/progressive and tech loving atmosphere it did only a few months ago.
edit: And yes, I do understand most of the population is moderate/centrist and not fans of free and open source software.
I remember getting a device that came with Vista. I reinstalled Vista on it and it still sucked. I then installed a pirated version of Windows 7 on it; the performance difference was night and day. It’s not @[email protected]’s fault that Microsoft is certifying incompatible hardware.