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?
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.