Just noticed I was subscribed to both this place and 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I’d prefer if this community were on PieFed proper, so I thought maybe it’s a replica of this one on PieFed… but it’s not. They’re both on the same server, but the numbers are actual numbers in the url instead of being spelled out. Huh?
He really wants piefed to be his personal domain, not a FOSS project to serve the fedi community. Even if I agreed with every feature, I still think these things should be up to the instance admins, not the platform developers. Him being so hostile and petty towards anarchists wouldn’t be as big of a deal if he didn’t want to police behavior on more than just his instance.
I ultimately don’t think he’s a bigot or some horrible, irredeemable person. He is stubborn and his own worst enemy, but I really do want piefed to be the best version of itself. Beyond any problems with developers, piefed introduced needed features to this side of the fediverse, which encouraged Lemmy developers to add them to their own platform. Piefed’s existence is a good thing, but that doesn’t mean I want to use it. I don’t want to make you hate it, just help you understand why it isn’t a clear cut successor to Lemmy.
Gotcha I really appreciate the explanation and extra details. I personally stick with Piefed bc I don’t want to use software run by MLs and that is indifferent to LLM usage, but I hope PieFed is either forked or that he comes to his senses in many ways.
I don’t get why someone would make a FOSS project if he wanted it to only serve him, as you describe. It’s straight up counter intuitive.
My guess is that it’s because the rest of the fediverse (ActivityPub) is FOSS, and a closed project wouldn’t get the same attention the fediverse gets. There has been early development on forks by people like Mia and db0 for personal use, but I’m not sure of the current status of such efforts. I suspect that such projects will remain obscure unless rimu goes off the deep end as hard as the Tesseract developer.