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Does it federate with Lemmy?
Edit: Ok that post comes from piefed itself. I have answered my own question.
Absolutely! This thread is posted by a PieFed user (and developer) in a PieFed community, and I'm responding to you from PieFed right now. :)
Piefed needs a cute mascot
I'm not wed to the logo, by any means
Are you wed to the name?
Not really, no.
To be fair it depends what kind of pie it is.
Why not Lemmy?
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.
And why it we'll never ever be mainstream.
Open source?!
Open source software is everywhere. Even freaking chromium is open source. Android is open source. WebKit is open source. Pretty much the entire web runs on Linux servers. Even gamers buy devices running Linux now.
Is it not mainstream because people don't realize it's open source while using it? Isn't it rather that it is mainstream when people use it without even realizing?
Fork no but it literally says a lemmy clone on its GitHub page. Also doesn't seem very active.
So what you don't what foss mean? There's 1000 flavor of Ubuntu.
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.
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.
Why did you assume it's a lemmy fork?
It's not a fork.