Yeah, they certainly don't have the same sense of urgency as the rest of us. I don't think it's bad intent as such, it's just that their priorities are very different.
Don't get me wrong - this is a massive part of the reason why I've never bothered to use Lemmy. So I absolutely think you're on to something.
I think everyone is always interested in improving, but there are a billion different ideas of what improvement looks like. Especially with content moderation.
What is a brilliant way to handle some issues might cause new problems that may or may not be difficult to predict. A lot of people have a lot of ideas, and people feel strongly about it. And most importantly, it's a lot of work to implement and typically not the most fun work for developers who tend to be be underpaid at best anyway.
It seems every fediverse service that gets big enough has people chanting about a hard fork because the developers don't care enough about content moderation. I believe it's probably more that it's extremely difficult, and that developers facing the reality of the situation might come across as dismissive when responding to ideas and suggestions.
The Lemmy developers initially included a filter for numerous slurs - I have a hard time believing they don't want content moderation to be their own vision of as good as possible.
In the end our strength is in fragmentation. I believe, no matter how little moderation tools improve, the small instances I'm on will never get as awful as Reddit. And if they do, I'll migrate to another one that's more trigger-happy about defederating. :)
That said, not sure whether you're wrong and absolutely not correcting you! Just my five cents.
It seems like his health condition got bad enough that he quite literally prioritised his life.
I hope he's well.
I really like the user experience as well, and @rimu@piefed.social is great at including the community in its development and keeping an open dialogue. It's a great project.
Mbin is very community oriented in it's development, collective decision-making and all that. Lemmy is more subject to the ideas of it's creators, for better or for worse.
I prefer being on instances with fewer users anyway - it feels a bit more personal. So more users on the larger Lemmy instances is not really an argument in my book.
I like the user experience on Lemmy and Mbin more. Another thing I like about Mbin is being able to boost posts and interact with the greater Fediverse more.
I like the performance of PieFed. It also works without JavaScript, which is nice some times.
What I like about this place is that we can all be on different platforms if we want to - there's no such thing as there not being enough people around to support all the platforms, as they're not competing for users. I'm happy whatever platform the people I interact with use - the important thing is that I can interact with them. :)
You'd be able to subscribe to YouTube videos from federated services, and when opening them you'd see the comments from YouTube. Similar to how PieFed is currently integrated.
I doubt we would suddenly have every thread flooded by the YouTube comment section, thank god.
Also I doubt it would ever happen - Google have no interest in driving traffic away from the site.
I haven't tried it, but kind of like what they're doing with the Fediverse and all that. I love flipboard.video.
But now I had to manually unclick a billion tiny individual cookie toggles just to view flipboard.com without sharing my data with third parties, so I get a feeling this app is not for me. At least I can follow content from Mastodon if I want. :)
Edit - oops, didn't realize the original comment was deleted. Oh well. :)
It's remarkable how stable Mastodon is over time - only matched by Bluesky and Threads, which are stable for a completely different reason.
One thing I have wondered about is whether, when sharing a link on Mastodon, all the traffic generated by different instances crawling metadata from the source inflates traffic artificially. That's something I was considering looking at my own data in cpanel, as I received more traffic to my website than I expected, but I'm not sure if it's a potential explanation?
I guess the main difference is that once you tag a.gup.pe, your post gets relayed to all followers of the group - independent of whether they are already federated with you. So kind of like hashtags, but it allows content to travel further.
I think it's also worth highlighting how PieFed interactions with other fediverse services. Both a.gup.pe groups and PeerTube channels integrate super well, and you can follow them like any other community.
In practice, this means that content from technology content creators posted on PeerTube will appear directly within the technology topic; videos posted to flipboard.video are pushed directly to the fediverse topic. Discussions and upvotes are, of course, federated directly to PeerTube.
As I love the potential of PeerTube but find it lacking in discoverability, this is something I really love.
True. Disabling downvotes would make a whole lot more sense than making them public and shame people who use them.