shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
Pylova is a mostly pointless reactionary fork that came out of some drama perpetuated by a bunch of crybullies.
So it’s cringe, but not necessarily controversial. But also doesn’t really contribute anything of value.
Actually I think it predated a good amount of that. Iirc PyLova was started much earlier than most people realize, stemming out of a frustration from wanting to contribute to the project but then Mia’s contributions were reportedly taken by the main PieFed dev without seemingly proper acknowledgement. And then yes the PieFed drama caused additional attention to be paid to PyLova than previously (particularly in the earlier stages of the fork - surely that’s a huge learning curve).
PyLova hasn’t done a whole awful lot yet in some respects, but especially some of the more recent inclusions may be absolute game-changers moving forward, especially the ability to support user shareable blocklists. That should go a long way towards retaining people coming here from Reddit who would otherwise flee this toxic shithole (well, some major parts of the Threadiverse are that way at least - certain highly notable politics communities in particular spring to mind, though after blocking this place can become much more chill! even if noticeably quieter…:-P). And PyLova un-does a lot of the minor annoyances that the main PieFed dev did not feel fit into his vision - e.g. a user can choose to display both upvotes and downvotes side by side, just like in Lemmy.
Meanwhile, PieFed is off chasing better compatibility with Mastodon. Some people want that, so it is a laudable goal, but then PyLova is focusing on improving the existing experience here within the Threadiverse, which also seems laudable to me?
However it got started, it is contributing to improving things, as software forks often do - that ability is part of what makes FLOSS so great!!
Thank for the complete feedback. Pylova has interesting features. :)
It made me curious and i want to give a try.
Is Pylova dev team is interested in Mastodon & Mobilizon support ? I need those two bridge so we can connect to the whole fediverse. :)
How many Rimuminbi do you get paid to write this?
PyLova has many features PieFed doesn’t, to the point PieFed is having to copy them poorly such as allowing more than one image in a post.
You’re only saying that because you’re a butthurt .social mod who got banned from every leftist instance. Now that’s cringe.
See what I mean? Look how fast they show up to push these wacky narratives and call people paid shills.
Lmao, another case-in-point: a quokk.au admin below is unironically calling the PieFed dev an “authoritarian liberal”. These are deeply unserious people.
Before I knew they were the piefed admin I had Rimu tagged as “psychotic hatred of leftists, extreme neoliberal” so yeah that seems like a fair label.
If you’re as unhinged as the rest of the FAF losers, sure.
Keep it respectful please.
So “losers” is “disrepectful” and “psychotic hatred of leftists, extreme neoliberal” is “respectful”?
Just making sure.
Well someone reported your comment. If you have issue with something someone else has written, report it. I’m not reading this entire shit show thread. I’m addressing reports until it gets to a volume where I have to lock it.
Got it. That makes much more sense. Thanks.
Lol there it is!
Oh look, and there it is!
A piefed.nullspace.lol admin and PieFed support worker has come along to call people “crybullies” and “deeply unserious”. Your DARVO isn’t going to work.
Also no, I don’t literally think you get paid in a currency I made up on the spot, but I do think you play defence for your side and are biased as fuck to the point you spread literal misinformation about a feature rich fork.
And you’re right things such as trying to enforce vote limits on users without consulting people, trying to hide meme communities (196) via hard code is surely a libertarian move and not the one sided actions of a wannabe dictator.
That’s rich considering how often people who defend PyLova point out how there is hard coded blocks in PieFed… yet can never really seem to point out exactly what is hard coded (in a very ”I’m only asking questions” way). Spoiler alert: Those blocks doesn’t exist. There are some filters, and I don’t agree with all of them, so I simply turn them off. There’s also the default instance and domain blocklist, which is also very easy to remove.
See? This is a straight up lie, i.e. misinformation. That makes it very clear that you’re arguing in bad faith. Or you have no idea what ”hard code” is and just using it to add an emotional emphasis to your point.
Want to try that one again champ?
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/search/branch/v1.3.x?path=&q=196&mode=exact
Yeah, this is exactly what I’m talking about. You present some “evidence“ that you claim is from a hard coded block, but that is a lie. The code in question is an ignore list for newly loaded communities - it does nothing to prevent anyone from joining that community.
This is more related to the aversion of meme and shitpost communities, which I don’t agree with but again there is nothing that prevents a operator from adding them (you literally just subscribe to the community, lol).
Not to mention that you apparently had to reference 10 month old release because it’s it there in the current release.
You are being dishonest. I did not say block, I said hide.
This was hard coded into the files to ensure people couldn’t as easily find the 196 community. That was an attempt at hiding it unless people specifically went looking to find it.
I know it’s not in the current version, because Rimu angered a lot of people when they found out and he had to apologize and remove it. Which is a familiar pastern for Rimu, try to sneak his opinionated takes into the software to users detriment, face backlash, and backtrack.
You’re still presenting it in a very dishonest and bad faith way imho.
I also don’t agree to a lot of the decisions of the main instance, the classification of meme communities as “low-quality”, blanket classifying 4chan screenshots as alt-right, or the vote limits. So it’s a good thing none of that is enforced in the source code, and that in the places where it previously might not have been an option Rimu has actually listened to feedback and made sure it’s configurable (and IIRC all except the defederation/domain blocks is disabled by default)
I don’t think you know what DARVO means…
“Feature-rich” LMAO
Again, for those reading, this group of people says all of this without a drop of irony. They really are like this.
As someone who uses both, they both have their place. I still use Lemmy from time to time too.