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I'm using both Mbin and Piefed and I'm loving both! It's absolutely not looking bleak. :)

Communication is difficult, especially over text, and emotions can get strong as there is a lot of work involved. Software developers are not always the greatest diplomats. Well-intended constructive feedback is often read as criticism, and situations escalate. And for whatever reason people love picking sides.

At least Mbin seems like a healthy project now, and since Kbin.social went down for good it's hard to argue a fork wasn't needed. Hopefully Ernest is alive and recovering well - he did us all a huge service by creating Kbin and making it open source.

If that's the literal translation it's also a bit ironic that he was hit by a truck.

Evan Prodromou is a visionary. I recommend this interview with him on the potential of ActivityPub and the end of walled gardens.

Very happy he is all right.

And !fuckcars@lemmy.world.

A Threads account seems somewhat more likely as there's already @potus@threads.net and @barackobama@threads.net, but it would be fantastic if the Harris campaign would set up a proper ActivityPub channel.

Stuff like this will probably become more likely once Threads start federating both ways, so that the user base of Threads is available for organizations promoting themselves on Mastodon. But I feel like $30 000 should at least make them consider copy/pasting content to Mastodon.

Direct link. Currently at 27k.

The idea is that if one is donating to the Harris campaign anyway, doing it under a shared Mastodon banner might push the Harris campaign towards posting on open platforms. So it serves a double purpose of fighting Trump and Musk at the same time.

Yeah, the irony is not lost on me!

Early on in the life of software I think a faster pace of development makes sense, when the software is less complex and there are fewer affected users. I think most Piefed users accept that they are very much using software that is still in active development.

Mastodon, on the other hand, is used by people who consider it to already be mature. A large number of people and organizations depend on it. Personally I trust it with the only actively maintained social media account I have in my real name. Moving too fast and making mistakes could have pretty fatal consequences there.

There are features I would like to see implemented as well - I think proper quote posts will be nothing but a huge improvement - but I appreciate that the developers are taking their sweet time making sure to get it right. And if Piefed reaches a million active users I expect its developer(s) to do the same.

I've been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.

I have two active accounts there.

If I recall correctly it just doesn't scale well, and starts performing poorly as the user count goes up.

Personally I prefer Mastodon. In the end there's only three dimensions: Security, performance, and personal preference.

I'm happy with how Mastodon is being run. Move fast and break things kan kiss my ass. Move slowly and don't suck.

But at the receiving end you'll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.

It's a tricky thing to get right.

Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.

I'm pretty sure Dansup is at least 40 senior developers in a trench coat. It makes no sense how many quality projects this guy manages to develop and maintain.

Off the top of my head:

• PixlFed
• FediDB
• PubKit
• Loops
• Sup