It’s in nobody’s interests, really.
Yeah, I’ve got very good reasons why I prefer PieFed over Lemmy, but a bigger Fediverse is a better thing, so Lemmy is definitely not a bad thing. It’s just can be argued to be less good than PieFed.
But still, good is good, even if something better exists.
I don’t think PieFed’s developers are developing it in order to damage Lemmy. I believe it’s developed simply because the developers believe it’s a good project that should exist.
It’s going to damage the Fediverse as a whole if we launch some kind of a “browser war” between different Fediverse serverside softwares!
Ironically I think its only a VERY small amount of users that are talking like its a “us vs them” mentality for Lemmy/piefed. The devs seem cordial and the APIs are doing quite well.
Its not like conventional internet with walls around platforms. Its a town square full of posts originating from many different platforms and everyone gets to chose how they view and interact.
Ironically I think its only a VERY small amount of users that are talking like its a “us vs them” mentality for Lemmy/piefed.
Absolutely!
But it is scary how easily a tiny minority can end up looking like the majority if it’s the only one that bothers voicing its thoughts! I used to be active on an F-website operated by the same company that operates “Threads”, and damn I had to write often that “come on, this thing was said by maybe four people, in a group of 15 000. It is very unlikely theirs is actually a very common way of thinking!”
Here people are maybe a little bit more able to understand this phenomenon, but we are human beings all the same. In other words, rather stupid. Therefore, I believe it’s good to always be afraid that all kind of cognitive biases are active in people’s heads, needing to be countered :)
There is a certain amount of competition but fundamentally we’re on the same team. If PieFed gains numbers at the expense of Lemmy that doesn’t really shift the dial in terms of the fediverse’s impact on society. I would much rather people from Reddit, etc joined PieFed.
I wish this enmity didn’t exist.
It’s in nobody’s interests, really.
Yeah, I’ve got very good reasons why I prefer PieFed over Lemmy, but a bigger Fediverse is a better thing, so Lemmy is definitely not a bad thing. It’s just can be argued to be less good than PieFed.
But still, good is good, even if something better exists.
I don’t think PieFed’s developers are developing it in order to damage Lemmy. I believe it’s developed simply because the developers believe it’s a good project that should exist.
It’s going to damage the Fediverse as a whole if we launch some kind of a “browser war” between different Fediverse serverside softwares!
Agreed.
Ironically I think its only a VERY small amount of users that are talking like its a “us vs them” mentality for Lemmy/piefed. The devs seem cordial and the APIs are doing quite well.
Its not like conventional internet with walls around platforms. Its a town square full of posts originating from many different platforms and everyone gets to chose how they view and interact.
Absolutely!
But it is scary how easily a tiny minority can end up looking like the majority if it’s the only one that bothers voicing its thoughts! I used to be active on an F-website operated by the same company that operates “Threads”, and damn I had to write often that “come on, this thing was said by maybe four people, in a group of 15 000. It is very unlikely theirs is actually a very common way of thinking!”
Here people are maybe a little bit more able to understand this phenomenon, but we are human beings all the same. In other words, rather stupid. Therefore, I believe it’s good to always be afraid that all kind of cognitive biases are active in people’s heads, needing to be countered :)
Yes, that’s right.
There is a certain amount of competition but fundamentally we’re on the same team. If PieFed gains numbers at the expense of Lemmy that doesn’t really shift the dial in terms of the fediverse’s impact on society. I would much rather people from Reddit, etc joined PieFed.
True. And I didn’t want to start one with this meme. I’m sorry if I accidentally did.
I just saw that Lemmy’s active users are on a downward trend the last 12 months and PieFed is quite the opposite.