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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wow that makes the pace of new feature development all the more striking.

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's pretty normal for new software to have a fast pace of new feature development, and for software that has established itself somewhat to have slower pace. Especially as fast pace means accumulating tech debt that you have to work on later

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. One is written in python and the other in Rust for example.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yea, Python has a tendency to be fast to work on at the start, but once the system reaches a certain level of complexity, it gets unwieldy... Rust doesn't run into the same problem, but takes a bit more up-front work on the small scale. At least that is my experience working with both professionally.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's amazing

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think it all comes down to using python instead of Rust right?

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 38 points 1 month ago

While some will claim that, I personally believe it's just as simple as the dev(s) doing good work. Code practices and readability goes a long way.

Both languages have relative popularity, but both are easy to debug, easy to work with. Both are good at what they do. Rust has an edge with raw speed and python with its community packages.

Looking at both codebases, I can tell you Piefed is immensely easier to parse and potentially make changes to. Lemmy is very hard to get into. At least for me. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome, but Lemmy is significantly harder to figure out what is going on.

Source: 18+ year software dev here.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

not quite. While it's true that rust has a reputation for taking longer to write and release in, green field development is a lot easier to work in than stuff that already has a lot of moving parts and places that you need to consider the affects of changing one thing to somewhere else.

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can I make a one-time donation?
One-time donations aren't properly supported yet, but you can discontinue your donation immediately after initiating the first payment.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's something I've been needing to do for a while.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 month ago

Kofi accepts one time donations.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

can we say that it is insanely cheap?

for an online platform competing with the big social media companies a total of less than 500 per month is nothing.

want to know the cost per active user per month and compare when Reddit and Facebook overhead.

That's specifically development funding. The hosting cost/funding is separate on an instance by instance basis, most likely the majority of funding comes from whoever owns/operates the instance.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you're forgetting about hosting, administration, and moderation! Don't forget to donate to your instance folks

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[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Warms my heart that people clearly care so much about keeping Lemmy going 😁

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I moved to Piefed because the Lemmy devs are pro-fascist tankies. I can provide proof.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (16 children)

If you have to slander us, at least try to make it believable.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's written, so it's libel in the USA. Not sure where you are or if it's different.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not a lawyer and people don't speak English in my country. So I don't really care how it works on another continent, as long as you get the meaning.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago

I'm not picking at you, just noting that libel usually carries harsher penalty.

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Your proof is that someone got angry that their post got removed for bigotry?

[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I might switch or have both Lemmy and PieFed profiles. When you moved to PieFed, was it possible to sync or import your data from Lemmy? Comments, posts, upvotes, etc.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

You can import your Lemmy settings, which are the subscribed and blocked communities, instances and users, and saved posts as well

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Rimu really needs to hustle these days.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Lemmy money is spread across 3 devs or so? And they have been writing it since 2018 or something. It's not surprising that they have more momentum and name recognition.

PieFed is new and on Codeberg. Especially the Codeberg thing, I like. It does lack a CI though. How stable is it?

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It breaks all the time but usually only for a tiny bit of time.

It has a docker setup, so in theory a good ci could start with just making sure that runs. Then we get the nicities like testing, e2e, deployment, ect ..

[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Codeberg has been stable enough for my small usage. It does have a CI, woodpecker, that requires manual approval. I haven't used their CI yet

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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now calculate the donations per active user and the difference becomes very small.

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

41425 MAU/$4250.39 = 9.74.../$1

1629 MAU/$60.86 = 26,76.../$1

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 11 points 1 month ago

Turns out the difference did not, in fact, become very small

[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But.... That is the exact opposite of what the comment asked for

assuming your numbers are correct:

4250,39 $ ÷ 41425 MAU = 0,1026 $/MAU

60,86 $ ÷ 1629 MAU = 0,0374 $/MAU

edit: formating

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Both of those things demonstrate the same point:

Lemmy has more funding per user (or, similarly, fewer users per dollar) by a large margin

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