Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        I haven’t seen that community before. Some people have way too much time on their hands to keep posting about things they dislike. But at least it proves that censorship on Lemmy is impossible, when not even us developers can do it.

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        35·
        2 months ago

        Big words from someone who posts anonymously, and who never contributed anything positive to the internet.

        • cacheson 💤@piefed.social
          63·
          2 months ago

          Ah yes, I sure am making any effort whatsoever to conceal my identity? Weird dodge there, guy.

          At this point even someone as ideologically blinded as you should be able to see that the presence of you and your tankie friends is a liability to the project. Why do you think OP is looking to avoid a “lemmy.ml type of situation”?

          • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            22·
            2 months ago

            Ah yes Im a liability to Lemmy which wouldnt even exist without my work. Troll harder kiddo.

            • cacheson 💤@piefed.social
              22·
              2 months ago

              I’m not saying that the work you’ve previously done should be undone. Ideally you would abandon your shitty politics instead of your development work, but I assume that’s out of the question.

              From the perspective of those trying to advocate for people to actually use lemmy, the instances that you run, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, are a serious problem. Together with hexbear, they’re the “missing stairs” of the threadiverse. We’re constantly having to tell people “Yeah, it’s understandable that you don’t want to associate with tankies, but it’s really not so bad if you just block those three instances, and don’t mind that two of them are run by the lead developers of lemmy”. You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.

              • Blaze (he/him)English
                2·
                2 months ago

                You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.

                It’s not that obvious.

                Who would take over Lemmy development? Mbin and Piefed are getting there, but still far from catching up (Piefed has no API so no apps, Mbin only has one app)

                Lemmy is still missing some impactful features which might really make it a 1:1 Reddit alternative

                • multicommunities
                • Post flairs, which could then be filtered

                In a scenario where we are only left with Mbin and Piefed, we would probably have to wait another year to get to where we are now with Lemmy.

                • cacheson 💤@piefed.socialEnglish
                  12·
                  2 months ago

                  You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.

                  It’s not that obvious.

                  At the very least, we’re at the point where the counterargument to mine is merely damning with faint praise.

                  I haven’t tried Mbin, and as a Piefed user I agree that it’s not there yet. I’m not suggesting that they should replace Lemmy as the backbone software of the threadiverse. However, Lemmy will continue to run in the absence of active development.

                  I expect Sublinks to eventually overtake Lemmy since it’s being designed as a drop-in replacement, in a language better suited to web development than Rust. The dev team also aren’t pathological authoritarians, as far as I know. If development on Lemmy were to stop, the threadiverse community’s attention and resources would significantly shift towards Sublinks, which would benefit us all in the long run.

                  • Blaze (he/him)English
                    2·
                    2 months ago

                    I’m not suggesting that they should replace Lemmy as the backbone software of the threadiverse.

                    Interesting, because that’s what I could see happening once they catch up. Unfortunately that’s not for now.

                    I expect Sublinks to eventually overtake Lemmy since it’s being designed as a drop-in replacement, in a language better suited to web development than Rust.

                    Sublinks was announced in January 2024. We’re in September, and the 0.1 version still isn’t going to be released any time soon: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6

                    I was hopeful for Sublinks as well at the beginning, but it seems like it’s not going to be the one replacement a lot of people were waiting for.

                    At this point in time, I think Piefed has the highest chances at becoming a 1:1 Lemmy alternative. Development has been fast. Maybe in 6 months or a year it can really reach feature parity.

                • cacheson 💤@piefed.social
                  12·
                  2 months ago

                  No defense, then? Lemmy is just intended as a delivery vector for shitty politics, shackled to the rotting corpse of the USSR?

    • mke@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Wait, when have I ever denied any genocide?

      I’m sorry, that’s hilarious. It’s so odd, so absurd I can’t help but laugh.

      I’ve disagreements of my own, but all I want is to put them aside for a bit because this sentence deserves appreciation.