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.
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.
Fair enough, I hadnāt been keeping track of their pace of development. Doesnāt look super active.
Iām operating under the assumption that for a while the bulk of new user growth will happen on the existing larger instances, which are all running Lemmy, rather than Piefed or Mbin instances growing faster than them. I think thatāll remain true even once Piefed and Mbin are more featureful than Lemmy, unless the gap is really significant.
If that turns out to be true, then for Lemmy to no longer be the dominant software, the existing big instances would need to switch, which wouldnāt be a trivial task. Piefed or Mbin could add the ability to migrate an existing Lemmy database, but I assume that it would be overall easier and less risky for them to move to a Lemmy clone than to a different system.
