Your title suggests Lemmy is proprietary which it is not.
Lemmy and KBin are both open source. [implying: “OP suggests Lemmy and/or KBin are not open source”]
*sigh* in no moment the OOP even implies that.
On-topic: PieFed is packed with a bunch of interesting stuff, mentioned by another user in that thread: better resource usage, better mod tools, gallery view, the ability to combine comments from different comms, a multi-reddit-like feature… and, additionally:
- a button to mute all replies to your comment
- an “attitude” score, to detect people who are excessively combative
- filter posts based on keywords
I’m actually rather excited for it, because it seems to be progressing at a fast pace.
the unfortunate event of lemm.ee shutting down lead to a lot of new instances adopting piefed. the dev team said this lead to a lot more feedback that drives development.
I’m so onboard with this.
There’s always some silver lining.
I think this increased adoption of PieFed might even benefit instances sticking to Lemmy; Lemmy development will likely speed up, to avoid making Lemmy seem “obsolete” in comparison with PieFed.
Not too sure about this.
Perhaps. I can’t rule out completely the possibility of Lemmy stagnating. In that case as PieFed development progresses, and the feature gap becomes wide, more and more instances shift from one to another. I do think however the Lemmy devs won’t simply see their software being replaced without “fighting back” (in a good way).
A third possibility would be specialisation - PieFed and Lemmy still coexisting, but taking different niches.
Oh, that might actually be why piefed.social was down earlier? perhaps a sudden influx of interested people was too much for an instance run by the dev on a 0 budget atm?
Some of the comments there are so miserable lmao. No doubt from some of the people who moan about reddit.
There’s definitely a huge aura of letting the enemy of good being perfect in how people view reddit-alternatives.
Too many people are asking for that silverbullet that doesn’t exist. As an improvement is worth pursuing nonetheless!
It’s a bit disappointing to see our Linux brethren over there behave in such a manner.
I used to think being a Linux user should enable someone to be more open to using the Fediverse and just working through its quirks. Much like Linux.
But I’m also a fool lol.
Linux users are probably here by now.
Not sure how you can use Linux and defend current Reddit
