I believe one cannot separate politics from code, as the very philosophy of FOSS is political, and based on that opinion I don't really believe beehaw can separate itself morally from the Lemmy devs. Secondly, as long as Lemmy software is used, it supports the developers, in the same way as we're supporting Ernest through donations. In my mind, in order to truthfully be independent, Beehaw should fork the software and make it theirs, which they discuss in this post. These are just my thoughts.