At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    I think a lot of people are going to switch to piefed once that gets more fleshed out. It federates with all lemmy but has a different and more open dev team working on it. They already have a bunch of cool features lemmy is currently lacking.

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      10 hours ago

      By “a lot” I’m guessing you mean a steady and eventually declining population of a few thousand monthly users?

      We don’t.have a lot of users, even if everyone switches they won’t get a lot of users.

      • OpenStars@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        2 days ago

        In many ways they already are ahead. The front end is a bit wonky though, and some of the foundational features are still catching up (it’s fully functioning though).

        For one thing, they have “categories” of communities, and for another I can block all users from any instance I choose - though there is really no easy way to accomplish that while still on Lemmy proper.

        But like when you upvote something, later it remembers that but won’t show you the color. The interface is really pretty though, and solves several of the issues I had with Lemmy, like another one is that you can turn on viewing or both the upvote and separate downvote counts, which for Lemmy iirc you can only see that for comments, but for posts that only shows on the mobile site yet not on the desktop for some reason.

        The PieFed devs are super responsive, quite extraordinary so imho. It’s like they care or something (uh… cause they do, ofc!:-).

        So especially since Lemmy is not perfect either, check out both Mbin and PieFed and just see them in action without an account, just for the fun of it.:-)

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          1 day ago

          There’s no way Python and Flask are going to scale as well as Rust. It’s going to require more hardware to run and be able to handle fewer users.

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            8
            ·
            15 hours ago

            The DB is all that matters. Python can scale very well through parallelization. So long as one doesn’t restrict themselves to one process, there’s really little chokepoint.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      I think a lot of people are going to switch to piefed

      The big problem is that it isn’t really possible for instances to switch from Lemmy to PieFed, or any other ActivityPub software.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        17 hours ago

        Once a Piefed instance is mature enough, I could consider asking a few communities I mod if they would be okay to migrate to it.

        !casualconversation@lemm.ee for instance doesn’t really need to be able to edit past posts, and we already moved from LW to lemm.ee. Moving again to another instance wouldn’t be that different.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          edit-2
          17 hours ago

          That’s a highly specific comm though and most instances/comms would not be okay losing the history. You also inevitably stunt growth and lose some users during such a migration. It would be much better if ActivityPub allowed an instance to change its underlying representation, while keeping all the users and post and data but unfortunately this is basically impossible.