Quick question, Iām looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.
Iām not saying that the work youāve previously done should be undone. Ideally you would abandon your shitty politics instead of your development work, but I assume thatās out of the question.
From the perspective of those trying to advocate for people to actually use lemmy, the instances that you run, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad, are a serious problem. Together with hexbear, theyāre the āmissing stairsā of the threadiverse. Weāre constantly having to tell people āYeah, itās understandable that you donāt want to associate with tankies, but itās really not so bad if you just block those three instances, and donāt mind that two of them are run by the lead developers of lemmyā. You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.
You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.
Itās not that obvious.
Who would take over Lemmy development? Mbin and Piefed are getting there, but still far from catching up (Piefed has no API so no apps, Mbin only has one app)
Lemmy is still missing some impactful features which might really make it a 1:1 Reddit alternative
- multicommunities
- Post flairs, which could then be filtered
In a scenario where we are only left with Mbin and Piefed, we would probably have to wait another year to get to where we are now with Lemmy.
You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.
Itās not that obvious.
At the very least, weāre at the point where the counterargument to mine is merely damning with faint praise.
I havenāt tried Mbin, and as a Piefed user I agree that itās not there yet. Iām not suggesting that they should replace Lemmy as the backbone software of the threadiverse. However, Lemmy will continue to run in the absence of active development.
I expect Sublinks to eventually overtake Lemmy since itās being designed as a drop-in replacement, in a language better suited to web development than Rust. The dev team also arenāt pathological authoritarians, as far as I know. If development on Lemmy were to stop, the threadiverse communityās attention and resources would significantly shift towards Sublinks, which would benefit us all in the long run.
Iām not suggesting that they should replace Lemmy as the backbone software of the threadiverse.
Interesting, because thatās what I could see happening once they catch up. Unfortunately thatās not for now.
I expect Sublinks to eventually overtake Lemmy since itās being designed as a drop-in replacement, in a language better suited to web development than Rust.
Sublinks was announced in January 2024. Weāre in September, and the 0.1 version still isnāt going to be released any time soon: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6
I was hopeful for Sublinks as well at the beginning, but it seems like itās not going to be the one replacement a lot of people were waiting for.
At this point in time, I think Piefed has the highest chances at becoming a 1:1 Lemmy alternative. Development has been fast. Maybe in 6 months or a year it can really reach feature parity.
