• asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
    131·
    5 months ago

    It has more features than Lemmy atm, such as custom feeds, flairs or tags or whatever you call them, community moving, etc. (Some of which will also come to Lemmy in v1.0.0): https://join.piefed.social/features/

    Since it uses Python and not Rust, it can be developed faster* => faster development and more first time contributions.

    Of course it isn’t perfect, it has its downsides as any other software. You might also find it more attractive if you don’t like the Lemmy devs’ political views.

    Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

    • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

      Whatever happened to kbin -> mbin? That was another early threadiverse alternative, but I don’t hear much about it anymore.

      • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Mbin is not as popular as Lemmy or Piefed, so nobody talks about it. Even before Piefed started being popular, Kbin was still not that popular compared to Lemmy in the past nor Piefed right now.

        With the Kbin lead dev not being active enough (due to medical reasons), the community forked Kbin, which is what we know today as Mbin.

        Unfortunately, Kbin’s extremely slow development and Mbin coming a bit too late hurt the userbase a lot and it got fragmented as a result. Some moved to Mbin, some to Lemmy or Piefed and some probably even left the Fediverse altogether.

        • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Thanks. I knew that kbin had been forked to mbin, but didn’t know whether mbin development had continued after that.