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1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay (media.piefed.social)
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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[+] -6 points 9 months ago* (9 children)

A lot of people hesitate to promote lemmy because of how transphobic / authoritarian the lead devs are. It's unfortunate, but if you're concerned about that then piefed really is the more attractive option (I like my comment history too much to have switched yet but... man, it's getting hard to justify not having done it.)

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s

    No one likes the lemmy lead devs or their stances. But, to my knowledge, they just keep doing their own thing over at .ml and never channel it into their actual codebase.

    When I first started here, I was on Kbin, and switched to lemmy because it was so much better. I considered switching to Piefed exactly because of these reasons you mentioned (I've already switched lemmy instances, comment history is not an issue for me), but when I looked into it there were so many just frankly aggravating things about the way it works and filters stuff by default (not to mention being written in Python, but that's completely tangential) that I couldn't do it.

    Sure, lemmy developers have backwards principles. But at least their software doesn't. I completely get why someone would use Piefed instead, especially if they're trans or of some other demographic directly targeted by the lemmy developers, but I wouldn't do it myself (unless it gets better, of course).

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s

    People are more likely to donate to a project that they actually use. If more people are using piefed, it means more money going to that project rather than a bunch of tankies. So I can see why people who disagree with the Lemmy devs might want to direct people elsewhere even if the software itself is apolitical.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    It's a testament to (if nothing else) the ability of the piefed devs to behave like adults that I know nothing about them personally. Nu/Des are horrible people, both politically and interpersonally, but that's the beauty of FOSS: Those of us comfortable with separating the software from the creators get to stick with the software we prefer over one that lacks features or broad support (i.e. all the piefed apps I've tried have been pretty rough). Same energy as why people still use windows instead of linux.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I'd argue that it is more because so many people have hate comms and groups set up specifically to target the lemmy devs. Idk why people hate Des so much

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Theee are hate comms for the lemmy devs? I've failed run across them, huh.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    There's even a user who manually mirrors stuff posted on ml because they hate the devs that much

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not entirely sure what that means.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    There are both comms that are hostile towards the devs and a specific user who's calling is reposting content AND attacking the lemmy devs

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    (I don't want to come across like I'm nitpicking because no, to be clear I'm genuinely interested in this.)

    That many communities are hostile to the devs shouldn't be surprising, because unfortunately the lemmy devs are openly bigoted and most communities don't like that. And that's ignoring how Des is also a genocide denier and dismisses the human rights abuses of china while championing authoritarians (ex: their profile banner is currently an image of Mao), things many communities explicitly do not allow.

    Without knowing which user you're referring to I can't speak to the scope of what they're doing, but a single user isn't exactly evidence of hate groups or hate communities specifically set up to target the lemmy devs. That's just reprehensible people being criticized, and then one potentially freak user taking it beyond what is reasonable.

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