The concern they raised only matters if you plan to pull updates from the repo you’re forking.

The first link 502s in both jerboa and Firefox for me. The second works in jerboa. But neither is local for me, I’m on lemmy.one.

I’m also getting used to this.

Ironically, your link 502s for me right now.

Isn’t this partially intentional? If you don’t like the moderation or community or one instance, you can join a community with the same name on a different instance. I don’t know how it works out in practice, but this should reduce the power of moderators who hang around forever without actually moderating.