This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This comment explains the drama and concerns pretty well. In short, the problematic lead stepped down and there isn't really a reason to discredit the dev team as a whole.
As far as auditing goes, the code is available on GitHub. Only slightly joking, following release updates would be a good way to see what's changing at a high level.
Did you link the wrong comment?
Don't think so, it links to the statement by thehatedone, right?
It should be right, like Dataprolet said. Lemmy's handling of linked comments can be confusing though.
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