Hello m@teys,
I've been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we've been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn't a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we'll actually vote on this.
Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.
Have a good week!
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I don't think it's a good idea, but i don't care so long as the lemmy instance stays open.
I think people's concerns over the politics of the developers are overblown and fragmenting into a new project weakens the fediverse - especially when I don't see anything wrong with the software that is being done differently in piefed.
It seems a little unnatural because people are trying to hide their racism, xenophobia, western superiority mentality, but the developers also made a lot of political posts to frame them as CCP talking heads. They should have just used alt accounts like rest of the internet platform owners. Rookie mistake.
But, at least they're honest about what they are and not covertly creating a foss product by hiding some sinister motive to rugpull later, like bluesky.
I missed something I think, what's wrong with Bluesky?
Bluesky will with 100% certainty turn to shit once the investors start sinking their claws into it. Every platform that is driven by profit will eventually turn to enshittification just like reddit is doing right now. Its inevitable. I'd rather set my focus on something like Lemmy or piefed which isn't profit driven and can be forked.
Bluesky has a protocol, and advertises itself as decentralised.
This is true/false depending on your defintion of decentralised.
The main problem is that almost all users are on bluesky's servers, and it was originally very expensive to run another node (this has since been fixed).
FWIW, bluesky is run by people who do care about it. The source of enshittification I see happening to them is investors demanding a return on their investment. They seem aware of this, they said they consider the organisation to be a future adversary.
I made two posts about it: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47335289 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47394310