• marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    4614·
    1 day ago

    Seems like an asshole/ego move to fork Lemmy rather than contribute to it when Lemmy is an ongoing project

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      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.

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      271·
      1 day ago

      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?

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Fork no but it literally says a lemmy clone on its GitHub page. Also doesn’t seem very active.

      • TheFrirish
        7·
        10 hours ago

        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.

        • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          Open source is all about fragmentation. It’s a natural result of freedom.

          Sure, if everybody pulled the same direction on the same project and successfully coordinated their cooperative effort while agreeing on everything and also having the perfect™ vision for the project, that would be great.

          But that’s just not gonna happen, for a million reasons. So instead, we get diversity, and people can use the software that fits them, and develop what they’re interested in in the language of their choosing. Thank god.

            • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              Open source?!

              Open source software is everywhere. Even freaking chromium is open source. Android is open source. WebKit is open source. Pretty much the entire web runs on Linux servers. Even gamers buy devices running Linux now.

              Is it not mainstream because people don’t realize it’s open source while using it? Isn’t it rather that it is mainstream when people use it without even realizing?

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
        17·
        20 hours ago

        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.

        • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          I wouldn’t be here if I had to use Lemmy. Its user experience doesn’t appeal to me.

          Piefed appeals to me, so I’m here. More good options will be reflected in more users.

        • airportline@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          19 hours ago

          Normally I’d agree, but the recent increase in popularity of Pixelfed among the TikTok crowd has shown me that it’s possible for one fediverse platform to succeed where a competing one failed.