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[Answered] Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here's a topic to discuss it.

What should we do? What are the options?

Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

There is Piefed, it's compatible with Lemmy instances and has a whole load of useful feature for both users and moderators.

Much quicker and responsive development (I've been able to get two small feature/improvement requests implemented within weeks of my initial issue post).

One of the Lemmy developers is also an admin on the notorious Lemmygrad instance.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Looks like I'll be checking that out.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    It's great, a lot better than Lemmy.

    The main weakness IMO is that Voyager doesn't support most of the cool features of Piefed (core interaction works great though). I have yet to try Interstellar. The mobile WebUI is pretty good, albeit in need of some polish and optimisations.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I think most of us using 3rd party apps are missing out on a lot of great piefed features that are available on the default UI. I personally use Thunder. I tried Interstellar but unfortunately don’t really like the UI (at least at its current state). Blorp is also supposed to be built with piefed in mind but it lacks even more UI customization (doesn’t even have compact view mode). I think we can just be patient that our apps will catch up eventually. Piefed is being developed so fast that I can understand 3rd party app devs have a hard time keeping up

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Compact view mode like this?

    Source: I’m Blorp dev

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I'd like to clarify here that Voyager can do with PieFed everything it can do with Lemmy. But PieFed has a lot more features than Lemmy does, and of those extra features, Voyager supports none. But that only means that the PieFed experience on Voyager is precisely the same as the Lemmy experience on Voyager!

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