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Why not Lemmy?
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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Because of you
Yeah, fair enough.
Not you. We like you.
I needed that, thank you.
Feet pics?
Yeah sure alright. Here:
I... Didn't expect that to work
I wouldn't have done it if you had. I hope you have a very nice day!
Damn, you did not hold back.
They seemed nice so why not. Plus, it's funnier this way.
I love this place.
❤️
This is [email protected] :)
I mean, it’s being federated to Lemmy and most of us just see the Lemmy software as the open Reddit alternative. I’m still not quite sure what Piefed is like, I’ve pretty much never had to look past Lemmy and Mastodon.
I recommend giving it a spin if you have the time! It's pretty great :)
That was about a year and a half ago ;p
Literally never heard about this event before today.
Seems like an asshole/ego move to fork Lemmy rather than contribute to it when Lemmy is an ongoing project
Ignoring the fact piefed isn’t a lemmy fork.
Are you really going to argue that forking an existing project because you want to take it a different way is an asshole move?
Also ignoring the same fact.
I mean in a way they're not wrong. This open source fragmentation is an actual nightmare at this point...
Buuuuut considering who the lemmy devs are I will gladly move to Piefed when I can actually easily host my own instance.
Open source is all about fragmentation. It's a natural result of freedom.
Sure, if everybody pulled the same direction on the same project and successfully coordinated their cooperative effort while agreeing on everything and also having the perfect™ vision for the project, that would be great.
But that's just not gonna happen, for a million reasons. So instead, we get diversity, and people can use the software that fits them, and develop what they're interested in in the language of their choosing. Thank god.
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Anything to avoid those dirty commie tankies. Lol
I'm fine with it whilst there are maintainers with the whole "transgenderism is bourgeoise decadence" stance going on. I've happily worked with MLs and MLMs, I'm not a fan of bigots who work backwards to fit their ideology to their prejudices.
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Why did you assume it's a lemmy fork?
Diversity is good
Yes, it is generally good, but if we want a viable alternative to the sub-based AI platform, then we need more users, not more platforms.
The platforms are federated and use the same protocol, it doesn’t matter
I wouldn't be here if I had to use Lemmy. Its user experience doesn't appeal to me.
Piefed appeals to me, so I'm here. More good options will be reflected in more users.
Normally I'd agree, but the recent increase in popularity of Pixelfed among the TikTok crowd has shown me that it's possible for one fediverse platform to succeed where a competing one failed.
It's an entirely different codebase. Lemmy is written in Rust, PieFed in Python. If you're a Python developer you're not going to randomly learn Rust to contribute to the huge existing codebase that is Lemmy, and even if you did you might have a different stance than the Lemmy developers calling for a fork.
Furthermore, it's not a zero sum game. The projects share content, and both benefit from the success of the other.
It's not a fork.
Does it federate with Lemmy?
Edit: Ok that post comes from piefed itself. I have answered my own question.
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Piefed needs a cute mascot
I'm not wed to the logo, by any means
Are you wed to the name?
Not really, no.
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