PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by LemmySlopSkimmer@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

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So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.

What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?

Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.

On which one should we put our weight?

PieFed all the way. It’s developing at lightning speed, while Lemmy lags behind as the transphobic genocide denying devs beg for donations with in built donation begging banners on all Lemmy instances front pages. Instances are apparently scared to defed from .ml for fear the devs wont support them with help.

Rimu has made some interesting choices, such as blocking 196 from default federating posts until a user subs first or a dislike for meme subs. But when spoken to has been receptive and removed such things or made them optional for admins.

Ethically and feature wise PieFed is in the lead, its not perfect but its open to change and receptive to ideas

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[-] Inui@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

They're also using Python, which allows them to more quickly prototype new stuff and more easily involve other developers, but in all likelihood will be less efficient from an engineering perspective in the long term. Lemmy is sort of a Rust experiment as a secondary thing, which takes longer to write and fewer people know at a proficient level.

[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

god i hate python. every time i update my system some python program breaks. every single time. and not ignoring whitespace makes programming in it such a pain in the ass. plus it's so slow all its packages are written in c++ anyway lmao