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Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

fizzle@quokk.au ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

All work with the activitypub protocol and are interoperable. There are others which are more like microblogging instead of post aggregation, like mastodon.

Lemmy is the most popular but the dev has some strongly held ideological views which… are unusual. I’d prefer not to support their work on that basis.

Piefed is IMO a direct alternative to Lemmy. I switched to piefed several months ago and there’s nothing missing. On mobile I just use a browser to access my instance’ web page. It’s fine.

mbin and kbin aren’t viable alternatives for most users.

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Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not each lemmy instance has political admins. It is like a room full of different people, among which there are science groups too.

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- fizzle@quokk.au ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You don’t seem to understand.
  
  The guy who develops the software that runs on all the instances has strongly held political and societal views which are incompatible with mine.
  
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  - Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I am aware of it. But his software is being used by other people who create instances that don’t support his political and social views. I find it rather amusing.
    
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    fizzle@quokk.au ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re welcome to be amused.
    
    Lemmy aside, if a developer was a fascist, or paedophile, or murderer, would you use their software?
    
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