A close cousin of Lemmy is Mastodon. If you consider Lemmy a federated version of Reddit, then Mastodon is a federated version of Twitter.

The largest Mastodon server is probably Truth Social, on which former president Trump posts his messages after being banned from Twitter.

Truth Social uses the same protocol as Mastodon of Lemmy: ActivityPub. The difference: the Truth Social administrators blocked the Truth Social server from sending out messages to or receiving messages from other servers. So it's a private Mastodon.

Bottom line: if you run your own Lemmy server you can block whatever server you want or none at all. And others can block your server if they want. If you create ab account at somebody else's Lemmy server, the administrator can decide to block other Lemmy servers.

If you use a Mastodon account, it's very easy to migrate to another server including your followers. Lemmy accounts do not appear to offer that functionality (yet?), but I expect a migration tool will be created in the future. So if an administrator decides to block another Lemmy server, but you don't like that, you might easily move to another server. As of yet, you can't however and need to create an account on another Lemmy server.

For those who are interested: MSNBC publishes a podcast called "Prosecuting Donald Trump" and the episode dated August 1st features former federal judge Michael Luttig who is interviewed about various subjects, including his tweets concerning the standpoint of Eastman in January 2020 that implied Trump could have Pence declare the election invalid. Which was nonsense.

https://www.msnbc.com/podcasts

there are a few important features needed in order to get there:

Might I suggest (sorry that I keep nagging you):

1. editing and deleting OPs

IMO, I think this is an essential feature for version 1. I know little to nothing about app development, but it seems like a relatively simple upgrade to me.

But it's obviously just a feature request. You and the other devs are doing all the work and choose what you give priority.

We need some kind of dashboard online with an overview of all the events on a timeline, just like you created.

Or a smartphone app that only pushes trial news and updates.

You might also want to check out wefwef:

wefwef.app

It's a webapp, but it's the best webapp I've ever seen.

No, this is the most serious lacking feature IMO.

But you could of course simply register your username at multiple instances and subscribe to the same communities. As there's no 'followers' like on Mastodon, the effect is the same.