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Ignoring the fact piefed isn’t a lemmy fork.
Are you really going to argue that forking an existing project because you want to take it a different way is an asshole move?
Fork no but it literally says a lemmy clone on its GitHub page. Also doesn’t seem very active.
Also ignoring the same fact.
I mean in a way they’re not wrong. This open source fragmentation is an actual nightmare at this point…
Buuuuut considering who the lemmy devs are I will gladly move to Piefed when I can actually easily host my own instance.
Open source is all about fragmentation. It’s a natural result of freedom.
Sure, if everybody pulled the same direction on the same project and successfully coordinated their cooperative effort while agreeing on everything and also having the perfect™ vision for the project, that would be great.
But that’s just not gonna happen, for a million reasons. So instead, we get diversity, and people can use the software that fits them, and develop what they’re interested in in the language of their choosing. Thank god.
And why it we’ll never ever be mainstream.
Open source?!
Open source software is everywhere. Even freaking chromium is open source. Android is open source. WebKit is open source. Pretty much the entire web runs on Linux servers. Even gamers buy devices running Linux now.
Is it not mainstream because people don’t realize it’s open source while using it? Isn’t it rather that it is mainstream when people use it without even realizing?