It sounds dumb to me to switch to an entirely different platform that’s suppose to be a “better” lemmy instead of just contributing to Lemmy and making it better for everyone. I’m sure there would be a good reason to go through all this trouble and I’m pretty sure its ideological (with the lemmy devs being ML)
I would wager a prejudice against Dessalines
It’s really just the deep unseriousness of liberals that can’t stand communists developing tools they use. There are a couple neat moderation tools from what I’ve heard, but that’s about it, it’s overwhelmingly ideological.
cowardice
Took a look at the repository and almost had a stroke.
Piefed
A Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask.
Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.
Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.
Emphasis mine. Also fastAPI.
So on the development side, it’s worse, less mature and way less efficient than Lemmy. The repository is also very messy. No complaints if it were a simple student project, but I doubt it’ll hold up for much longer. I just would never personally risk changing a server I admin to that software.
The moderation tools described there seem cool, so Lemmy contributors probably have more useful opinions there.
And on the interface front, by default it looks like the New Reddit interface that privileges image and video posts over link and text posts. That is configurable in Lemmy too, but most server admins or users never mess with that. Not my cup of tea, but some people prefer things like Instagram over things like RSS feeds.
Overall it seems like a fine experiment for ease of implementation of some tools, but anybody jumping ship right now really just dislikes the lemmy.ml instance and the developers.
Python
But I find it very funny that we’ve gone full circle on the “X but written in Rust” thing, now we have Rust systems being rewritten in python.
Its atleast 85% ideological
What’s funny is, if you look at what that thing is capable of doing its full fledged shadow manipulation and “authoritarian” hyper control. Its whole goal is to literally give admins the power to shape the votes based non their own little peculiarities. You can make specific instance votes count for 0 or double their value, or even 99x their value.
Sounds like something like:
“Reddit is too much of an echo chamber, I’m leaving.”
later
“I realized the problem. It’s not that Reddit was an echo chamber. It’s that it wasn’t my personal echo chamber.”
Hey now, your assuming liberals understand what athority or athoritarianism is
Reddit restoration, I think [email protected] wants to make fully lib fediverse without any MLs.
Yep, it’s pure .ml hate, rimu/skavu or whatever their name made it to cater to the libs because “ruzzian propaganda!”
The weird part is, I’m pretty sure no one here takes every word from every Western or non-Western source as gospel, because we’ve debated claims of several articles from several sources, here. And maybe we have been fooled, on some claims, occasionally. But speaking for myself, I just make a mental note and read other sources from other perspectives, and ask about the claim or figure I’ll either know when I know or won’t, unless a claim is an especially glaring, at which point most of us have a little bit of fun with it. I mean, things can go full dooner pretty quickly if we don’t have a laugh sometimes.
