Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?

RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It will become a problem for us if lemmy isn’t funded, won’t it?

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only if Lemmy was the only Reddit alternative. As so many people are saying though, it’s not.

    e.g. PieFed not only exists but it has surpassed Lemmy in most ways in terms of feature development. And it continues to add new features at an astonishing pace.

    There is no hope for “Lemmy” reaching the mainstream in my mind, but with PieFed leading the way, and Mbin also exists (that sounds mean so I’ll clarify: it has <1k users worldwide iirc), and yes a fork of Lemmy could be created if necessary, there is hope for the Threadiverse (federated threaded-based conversational platforms) overall.

    Try out PieFed, even just the sign up wizard will leave you amazed. Donate to both its development and the operation costs of the instance that you choose (PieFed.social, PieFed.zip, several others to choose from).

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Then probably something else will be funded in the same amount. That will be either PieFed or mBin.

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  • RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No. If the project is interesting enough for people spending their time developing and using it there will always be running Lemmy instances. The need for funding over the amount people are willing to dedicate to a hobby project is the death of a project like this.

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