You need to stop thinking like the fediverse is a popularity contest. The fediverse is not about anyone "winning", it's not about one app or service becoming "the" place to be. The fediverse is not like the big tech closed social media platforms.

If you like Piefed, you should use it. If you prefer Lemmy, use that. If you want to make your own fediverse service, you can do that.

If Piefed suddenly gets super popular, everyone wins cause Piefed connects to everyone else, like Lemmy and Mastodon does too.

A rising tide lifts all boats. The point of the fediverse is not winning, but choice. Everyone has their own choice to make about their use of software, and nobody has to force that choice upon you.

if they do we'll know for certain that it's receiving funding from the cia.

🎱 It says, “Uncertain”.