Throwing a tantrum about what exactly? They’re one of the oldest-running Lemmy instances. Until now they were running a fork based on a pre-Federation version of the codebase.
You believe they did a bunch of work migrating their database only to then negate that work by destroying the community they wanted to Federate with?
The thing I don’t get about the whole GNU/Linux thing is: aren’t there a lot of tools that have become pretty standard to what Linux is at this point? Like X or Wayland? Most people aren’t exactly running servers.