Wow, Lemmy without federation? That doesn’t sound like Lemmy! :)

When are we getting stickers?

Gosh why even fork Lemmy?

I don’t think Lemmy itself can have a culture. Specific servers can, like lemmy.ml, or even multiple servers forming some kind of a community, but as long as Lemmy is federated and dcentralized then it becoming popular is not going to hurt our community. People can always go form there own community and establish their own server.