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• ytg@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s

  No one likes the lemmy lead devs or their stances. But, to my knowledge, they just keep doing their own thing over at .ml and never channel it into their actual codebase.

  When I first started here, I was on Kbin, and switched to lemmy because it was so much better. I considered switching to Piefed exactly because of these reasons you mentioned (I’ve already switched lemmy instances, comment history is not an issue for me), but when I looked into it there were so many just frankly aggravating things about the way it works and filters stuff by default (not to mention being written in Python, but that’s completely tangential) that I couldn’t do it.

  Sure, lemmy developers have backwards principles. But at least their software doesn’t. I completely get why someone would use Piefed instead, especially if they’re trans or of some other demographic directly targeted by the lemmy developers, but I wouldn’t do it myself (unless it gets better, of course).

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Eeh, it’s a testament to if nothing else the ability of the piefed devs to behave like adults that I know nothing about them personally. Nu/Des are horrible people, both politically and interpersonally, but that’s the beauty of FOSS: Those of us comfortable with separating the software from the cringe creators get to stick with the software we prefer over one that lacks features or broad support (i.e. all the piefed apps I’ve tried have been pretty rough). Same energy as why people still use windows instead of linux.

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    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d argue that it is more because so many people have hate comms and groups set up specifically to target the lemmy devs. Idk why people hate Des so much

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Theee are hate comms for the lemmy devs? I’ve failed run across them, huh.

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  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s

    People are more likely to donate to a project that they actually use. If more people are using piefed, it means more money going to that project rather than a bunch of tankies. So I can see why people who disagree with the Lemmy devs might want to direct people elsewhere even if the software itself is apolitical.

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