This is good news. I have complete faith that tech companies will find a way to make a shitshow out of this but I hope that this is just the first of many steps like this.
In power strips, the lights are (in the overwhelming majority of cases) actually a neon bulb! They're cheaper for that specific purpose because they can be powered directly off of the mains power with a single resistor.
Your point is entirely valid and I bear the same cross, this is just a fun fact you can use to impress colleagues, strangers, and potential lovers, dazzling them with your deep esoteric knowledge of and passion for illuminators in power strips.
I don't believe FMHY was affected. For me, the timeline went:
I found out about the hack pretty much immediately when it happened
I immediately hopped into the Lemmy dev matrix channels to get an idea of what was going on
I crossposted the news of the hack in !technology@lemmy.fmhy.ml about 20 or 30 minutes after it happened
In the dev channels, right around when I made the post, a couple of users were able to pin down the exact vulnerability and which server the user that perpetrated it originated from. A user (that I won't name) sent test instructions (that were quickly deleted and I will not share on the off chance that there are servers that don't know about the vuln and haven't patched or mitigated) that verified the vulnerability.
A pull request for the fix was submitted to github (and, from a cursory look at the PR, it closes the hole that was used for the hack solidly) while, simultaneously, a couple of other devs stated that 0.18.1 is not affected by the vulnerability (which I have not taken the time to verify since they've already PRed a patch)
For those reasons, I don't think FMHY was ever at risk because of how quickly it was updated to 0.18.1 coupled with the fact that I don't think custom emojis are a thing on here. It's very possible that I am wrong about that because I'm an idiot but I don't believe there's anything to worry about.
I gave Calibre a brief shot and was immediately put off by how big and clunky it was. I'm sure it would have been perfect if I gave it more of a shot and spent time tweaking.
Kavita has been my solution for the last probably 7 months and I'm loving it. I don't need anything outside of "put book in place" and then "Open Kavita, see book" and it has been perfect for that. It's essentially plex but with books in terms of how using and maintaining it has been.
I'm going to be honest, that sounds like we'd just be inventing something for people to get mad about. The entire ethos of decentralization is for that sort of arrangement to not be a thing. Either the charter would have nobody to enforce it OR you'd have to centralize authority.
What you're describing works for various instances to form a sort of collective with shared ideals but projecting that onto the entire network is antithetical to the entire idea here.
Also, and this is nitpicky, I admit-- You're not in the Lemmyverse. You're in the Fediverse, a space in which lemmy is a very new and small part.
