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Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term?

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YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Why does bespoke have to mean no development? If it’s custom code, big whoop - provided the dev either made it easy to modify, or still helps out with it. Our company has tons of bespoke apps that get developed regularly.

(That said, I don’t know what metafilter is)

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
MetaFilter literally used Adobe Coldfusion to put together their site and the site is still using ColdFusion as of 2025. There wasn’t “backend development” in the same way there is for projects like Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon, and so on. MeFi is only just considering rebuilding the site from scratch since 2024 and the main head of that exploratory project has been MIA for several months now.

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- YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Thanks. Apologies for derailing your point which is that this stuff can run for years without changes.
  
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  - SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    No worries, it wasn’t as clear as it could have been, for sure.
    
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