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[–] Sunshine 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is now my new home for the topic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for posting there !

[–] Sunshine 2 points 1 day ago

It's the first piefed community I started using!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Still a bit early to announce it on [email protected] , but I thought it was worth sharing here.

Note that I had to use my alts to federate it to most instances, as Lemmy-federate doesn't support Piefed (or at least, Piefed.social isn't enrolled)

Thank you @[email protected] !

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still have not tried PieFed yet but I always find myself cheering it on whenever I see it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It has great potential

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

great, now I'm subscribed to 4 communities called "fediverse" :D (the one you linked to and the ones on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world and lemmy.zip)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (14 children)

lemmy.zip

I was hoping to get that one to become the LW alternative, but after the mod asked me to become a mod and I declined, but suggested to create a meta post to call for more mods, they told me they prefer to not have meta posts on that community.

Well, fine, you make the rules, I guess I'll post somewhere else.

Note that this was also why [email protected] and [email protected] never consolidated, the mods of both communities just wanted to keep theirs

[–] Sunshine 1 points 1 day ago

Note that this was also why [email protected] and [email protected] never consolidated, the mods of both communities just wanted to keep theirs

That's interesting context to consider.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@[email protected] , IIRC at some point you volunteered to join the mod team of [email protected] , did that ever went anywhere?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did I? I don't even remember this... if I did volunteer I don't think it ever went anywhere no.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There is also:

I'm not too keen on Piefed because it's written in Python, which is multiple times less than Rust (what Lemmy is written in) for a server back-end application. It just seems like a waste of electricity or adding more carbon to the atmosphere than it should, for a widely-used server application.

Edit: "less [performant]" - missed a word there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is your stance on Mbin?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've come off seeing a lot of people express dissent in a rather acidic manner, so I just appreciate that you have stated an opposing view in a way that is informative, and a lot less "anyone who disagrees is [bad thing]", "I will say that anyone who approves of [thing I don't] masturbates to it as a way to be hurtful and insulting", "you disagree? I will position you as overly emotional and myself as the realist by saying 'Cope'", etc.

You've made me curious about various programming languages' efficiency, specifically in how choice of language might affect resource consumption. Not just CPU cycles but carbon and electricity. And I'm actually going to look into it instead of feeling put off enough by vitriol that I just wash my hands of the entire disagreement and walk away. +1, this is how you disagree online.

Yes, I may be venting my feelings about seeing too many people being mean online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I feel similarly about mean replies online, which is why I usually try not to contribute to that trend. If nothing else, I at least try not to escalate arguments.

Regarding programming languages' efficiency, it's a pretty interesting topic to consider in this time of climate change. There can be trade-offs like for example in the case of Python vs. Rust, while you gain a lot in terms of performance and resource utilization with Rust, you lose a lot in terms of development speed, from what I understand (I have not programmed with Rust yet, nor any large projects with Python). I hope that more programmers begin to consider these factors when picking a language to develop with.

Take care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That was a nice comment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alright, so I just learned about [email protected]. It's a NodeBB instance run by the WeDistribute team, led by @[email protected] and it can interoperate with Lemmy and Mastodon and the mbin family of software.

Can we agree that it is a better fit than any of the existing alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

@[email protected] I don't have an alt on your instance so feel free to subscribe if you like the idea

Same for @[email protected] and @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

subscribe if you like the idea

Thanks for the tag, I've added it to our feed.

I don't have an alt on your instance

Seems easy enough to remedy 😎

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Nice!

I might at some point ha ha 😄

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The little community that @[email protected] set up, keeps growing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All this shuffling around for circumstantial reasons gets tiring and confusing.

Instead of spending all this time and energy trying to coordinate large-scale movements it would be a lot easier to just create a separate instance to be the home of the communities and have a neutral ground.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (29 children)

Feel free to stay on LW if you prefer

I prefer to have a community where aussie.zone doesn't have a 3 days delay

just create a separate instance to be the home of the communities and have a neutral ground.

Who manages that instance? How do you prevent power tripping?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
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