The big difference is the teeth.

Well that and Mammoth never integrated ActivityPub

This is a joke right? You are aware its a play off of Leningrad (now St. Petersburgh), right?

Word!

If by here you mean lemmy.ml, the first lemmy server, you are certainty correct. Lemmy was originally authored by Marxists-Leninists to counter right-wing reddit. Or even more extreme lemmygrad.ml which I believe was the second Lemmy server, established by Stalinist kicked off of lemmy.ml for being too authoritarian.

Really? I first joined the 'verse in 2011 & I hardly ever see anyone talking about the Kernel Linux, and that’s something I would like to learn more about. There is frequently conversations about great Free Software projects, mostly from an end users perspective, including the GNU/Linux desktop OS but even the Lemmy Linux community is practically silent about the Kernel which makes up the backbone of most of our technical lives. Even mentioning Android/Linux practically gets you booed out of there.

we could just ride your mom

most of us hate the government and yet we use the roads

that’s what they want you to think

I think a big help to avoid this is if any “official” apps automatically point to something like lemmyverse search or Fediverse Observer rather than Join Lemmy or any single instance.
Mastodon.socialwas already by far the largest before the only app named “mastodon” available in the major mobile repositories was built to automatically have you create an account on mastodon.social to “Make it easier for the normies”.

The fact that I dont’ even know the name of any lead developers of #lemmy as opposed to /u/[email protected] is probably a good sign too.