gelberhut

This pretends to be a source code which was leaked earlier, not what they open sourced.

cool, then you probably can clarify me how it assumed to be used to organize a meeting. What I see now, looks the following way

1. I create a meeting with unique name, join it and immediately leave it. Now this meeting will exist forever (I cannot delete it)
2. I send link to the meeting to people who should participate with start date/time
3. Anyone from invited people can login to the meeting using their gmail/fb credentials before me and takeover meeting admin role.

Moreover, if on step 1 I enter already existing meeting name, there will be no error message I simply try to jump-in in existing meeting (without knowing this).

Does it really work like that?

You are completely wrong.

Do you know if I can schedule a meeting for a specific date in jitsi (I cannot find any mention of this)?

A free account has a 1 hour limit for group video calls.

They cannot. But, if you created a community on your instance it must align to the instance rules and admin can moderate it (does matter who posts there).

The second, smaller, issue people will associate you a bit with the instance you selected for your account (even if it was by chance).

except of course keeping it legal

This is also up to them. If the admins are ok to get corresponding consequences - they can do this.

Posts like this posted here from time to time.

And I think the main problem is: the fact that an instance has a very strong political view and even a censorship becomes a big surprise for people using this exact instance.

It looks like an instance and community policies must be somehow better visible.

I swear it's not me, it's my smartphone. We will have a serious conversation with it about this!

Then do not invest your time in communities hosted on lemmy.ml (if you do not agree with the instance ideology).

The most popular (?) Open source software community is hosted on Lemmy.ml

You have many good points here. Still, I have a feeling that Lemmy as a platform and as a software is still very coupled with its creators.

Yes, there are other contributors as well. But these guys currently own the official repo and make key decisions. And if you donate to Lemmy you pay a salary to these two guys (afaik, Lemmy is their full-time work these days).

So, for me, it is still rather complicated.

Well, the situation is a bit more complex. Admins of this "specific Lemmy Server" are creators and main maintainers of the Lemmy project as such.

So, generalization you are afraid of makes some sense.