Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially?
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
Supporting Lemmy won’t do much to help the Threadiverse thrive imho. Instead I suggest supporting PieFed, for many uh… reasons. One being that it is written in Python (which many developers are already familiar with, rather than the extremely niche Rust that even experienced C++ coders are loathe to have to learn) and thus has a ton of features already that Lemmy lacks (see https://join.piefed.social/features/), plus it’s only continuing to add still yet more, on a monthly basis even.
By comparison, Lemmy requests sit for literally years and years, while a lot of the donations, rather than going to support further code development, instead goes to support the, let’s just say “highly controversial” instance lemmy.ml.
Lemmy won’t “die”, but it’s never going to hit mainstream. Visit r/RedditAlternatives in any given post to find out why (hint: tankies, which Westerners do not like, probably bc tankie instances are full of content calling for the literal murder of Westerners as well as the actual fall of those civilizations - for some reason though these anti-Western sentiments seems to drive people who live there away? Go figure!🤪🙃).
PieFed on the other hand might just have a chance, and the dev team is super friendly and highly responsive. At least check it out.
Also, post content! More than most other things you could do, that would help a lot.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
Shitting on Rust while propping up Python, whose ecosystem receives every day more and more influx of Rust-based tools and libraries is… a weird choice.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
It is your choice: you could look at the set of features that PieFed has and how quickly they were developed, and you could compare that to the requests sent to Lemmy for features that have not and seem at this pace like they will never be done, and you may conclude whatever you like.
Maybe it’s not the language, maybe the PieFed devs are just simply that good while the Lemmy ones are not, is that what you are implying?
Or maybe you don’t know the feature comparison between those two software platforms - fwiw I included a link above.
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 week ago
I’m specifically complaining about you shitting on Rust. The other things you mention aren’t germane to your language-specific attack.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
There are pros and cons to every language. Is what I said inaccurate? “Many developers are already familiar with” Python, whereas many people are not wanting to learn Rust. I’m not saying it’s not a good language (or that it won’t be one when it gets finished), but from the standpoint of how many people are willing to join a project to write code for the Threadiverse, it does hold back feature development.