PieFed Meta @piefed.social Rimu @piefed.social 1mo ago

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Why not Lemmy?
- Because of you
  
  Yeah, fair enough.
  
  ❤️
- This is !piefed_meta@piefed.social :)
  
  I mean, it’s being federated to Lemmy and most of us just see the Lemmy software as the open Reddit alternative. I’m still not quite sure what Piefed is like, I’ve pretty much never had to look past Lemmy and Mastodon.
- That was about a year and a half ago ;p
Seems like an asshole/ego move to fork Lemmy rather than contribute to it when Lemmy is an ongoing project
- Ignoring the fact piefed isn’t a lemmy fork.
  
  Are you really going to argue that forking an existing project because you want to take it a different way is an asshole move?
  
  Also ignoring the same fact.
  
  I mean in a way they're not wrong. This open source fragmentation is an actual nightmare at this point...
  
  Buuuuut considering who the lemmy devs are I will gladly move to Piefed when I can actually easily host my own instance.
  
  Fork no but it literally says a lemmy clone on its GitHub page. Also doesn't seem very active.
- Anything to avoid those dirty commie tankies. Lol
  
  I'm fine with it whilst there are maintainers with the whole "transgenderism is bourgeoise decadence" stance going on. I've happily worked with MLs and MLMs, I'm not a fan of bigots who work backwards to fit their ideology to their prejudices.
  
  Only if its still compatible, otherwise no. Not "anything"
- Diversity is good
  
  Yes, it is generally good, but if we want a viable alternative to the sub-based AI platform, then we need more users, not more platforms.
- Why did you assume it's a lemmy fork?
- It's an entirely different codebase. Lemmy is written in Rust, PieFed in Python. If you're a Python developer you're not going to randomly learn Rust to contribute to the huge existing codebase that is Lemmy, and even if you did you might have a different stance than the Lemmy developers calling for a fork.
  
  Furthermore, it's not a zero sum game. The projects share content, and both benefit from the success of the other.
- It's not a fork.
Literally never heard about this event before today.
Piefed needs a cute mascot
- I'm not wed to the logo, by any means
  
  Are you wed to the name?
  
  To be fair it depends what kind of pie it is.
Does it federate with Lemmy?

Edit: Ok that post comes from piefed itself. I have answered my own question.
- Absolutely! This thread is posted by a PieFed user (and developer) in a PieFed community, and I'm responding to you from PieFed right now. :)

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