The creators of Lemmy are tankies and have some pretty despicable views, maybe we shouldn’t advertise giving them money.
I like the software, it feels cozy outside some communities from lemmy.ml, and I hope someone forks it eventually, but for now removing the link should be easy to do.
Relevant thread: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
I’m not very familiar with docker and whether it’s possible to just patch files in the image, if yes the you could probably make a script to apply it in case of an update (client.js is the file that needs to be changed), if not it should be possible to make a theme with some CSS that removes it.
With the license, I think stating the exact change in the sidebar would be enough, but obviosuly not a lawyer and AGPL is funky.
Think of Docker as just an .exe, the compiled version of the code in a neat bundle. We’d just need to set up a pipeline to run that, but since it’s AGPL, we should be fine.