Recently joined and started a community for people who want to move away from Lemmy and want to see Lemmy loosen its stranglehold on the threadiverse, if that seems like something interesting to you consider checking out !cancel_lemmy@piefed.social

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Fwiw, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

    I for one am extremely happy to see PieFed flourish, and one of my chief reasons to move to it 8 months ago was specifically to block lemmy.ml.

    That said, I have no desire to “cancel” anyone at all - and the Lemmy devs are worthy of respect for their accomplishments, even as they also deserve some criticisms for the way that they run their instance.

    I love how the future allows PieFed and Lemmy - and Mbin, nodebb, flarum, friendica, mastodon, pixelfed, etc. - to exist altogether in the Fediverse, without needing any of the others to die out. I even maintain accounts on both PieFed and Lemmy instances, as each currently offers features that the other lacks.

    (also, if some of the lemmy instances were to be cancelled, then all of their users would come over to here… think about that for a moment, is that a desirable outcome to you? :-P)

  • WatDabney@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My thought is that Piefed is too eager to curate my experience and too heavily promoted of late to be believably organic

    It reeks of an organized, astroturfed attempt to effectively centralize the fediverse.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t really agree that it’s an attempt to centralize the fediverse but I do think that the push and praise for it feels extremely unnatural, especially how people are bragging about liking and wanting the reputational features of it, and being able to hide the modlog. Like dude those are the biggest reasons people left Reddit, and now suddenly “people” are just going gaga for those same anti-features. That seems more than fishy to me…

      • Tealk@rollenspiel.forumEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Sorry, I must not have been awake enough, I misread it. kbin is dead when I look at the repo, but piefed still looks very young as a project.

        • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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          2 months ago

          kbin is dead when I look at the repo

          kbin is dead yeah, but it does have an active fork in Mbin. That’s what I’m using.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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      2 months ago

      Lemmy isn’t the only platform on the fediverse, nor the only one with communities.

      I’m writing from Mbin btw, another platform that’s not Lemmy.