Sacha baron Cohen stole his act. The idea of it, not the execution. Fuck him.

Is it safe to assume that every single author (apart from the ones that cannot prove their works were in any of those archives at the time) can sue meta for plagiarism and theft?

There’s a documentary called Revenge of “Billy the Kid” that doesn’t go into too much detail, but might answer your question.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0102783/

That’s far too long. They could try and turn it into a ditty for an advert, but it wouldn’t look great on their merch.

I think many will forget. Meanwhile the rest of us that continue to use Lemmy, can hopefully mirror a load of the more popular communities, even if they have a very low numbers of moderators. That way, if there ever is another protest, many will be able to blend into their favourite communities without missing a beat. May even stay here. I think if the communities exist, even if it’s just the basics, more users will come and stay.