I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here’s a topic to discuss it.

What should we do? What are the options?

Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    So far no one who’s able and willing to do the work for a fork has done it so I assume the motivation is low. There’s alternate pieces of software mentioned here that have their pros and cons.

    • Tuukka R@piefed.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      PieFed and mBin exist. Both do everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. They use less resources as well. What reason would there be for forking Lemmy? The only reason Lemmy is the most popular one among these is that it was the first one. Since then, better things have surfaced.