A drop in replacement fork? No, I’ve thought about forking it and rewriting in C# (my preferred lang, which might also have the effect of attracting more contributors (C# has WAY more active open source devs than rust)) but historically political forks tend to flame out and I know I probably won’t have the time to support it myself if it came down to it which is the only way to keep a political form from flaming out

That being said, the infusion of their ideology has generally been kept to a minimum in the actual code. There’s certainly concerns, like how they made the modlog less useful and potential to steer people to .ml unfairly with the main Lemmy landing site. But nothing overt