Warms my heart that people clearly care so much about keeping Lemmy going

Wow that makes the pace of new feature development all the more striking.

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Yeah it's amazing

Yet the .ml stans say Desselines lives in abject poverty and "does this out of the goodness of his own heart". Suuuure.

The Lemmy money is spread across 3 devs or so? And they have been writing it since 2018 or something. It's not surprising that they have more momentum and name recognition.

PieFed is new and on Codeberg. Especially the Codeberg thing, I like. It does lack a CI though. How stable is it?

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I think it all comes down to using python instead of Rust right?

That's split between him and Nutomic though. USD $4250 is €3,665.80 (as of writing this comment), divided between them is €1,832.90. That's not a lot.

If you split that between 2/3 devs it's not a lot. It's a decent part time job, I suppose. But in a lot of places not enough.

It's pretty normal for new software to have a fast pace of new feature development, and for software that has established itself somewhat to have slower pace. Especially as fast pace means accumulating tech debt that you have to work on later

That is definitely a strong factor.

Codeberg has been stable enough for my small usage. It does have a CI, woodpecker, that requires manual approval. I haven't used their CI yet

I meant that https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi doesn't have a CI setup.

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While some will claim that, I personally believe it's just as simple as the dev(s) doing good work. Code practices and readability goes a long way.

Both languages have relative popularity, but both are easy to debug, easy to work with. Both are good at what they do. Rust has an edge with raw speed and python with its community packages.

Looking at both codebases, I can tell you Piefed is immensely easier to parse and potentially make changes to. Lemmy is very hard to get into. At least for me. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome, but Lemmy is significantly harder to figure out what is going on.

Source: 18+ year software dev here.

Yeah that's something I've been needing to do for a while.

It breaks all the time but usually only for a tiny bit of time.

It has a docker setup, so in theory a good ci could start with just making sure that runs. Then we get the nicities like testing, e2e, deployment, ect ..

Ah, my apologies!

I moved to Piefed because the Lemmy devs are pro-fascist tankies. I can provide proof.

Yeah. One is written in python and the other in Rust for example.

I mean, it's equivalent to the minimum salary i guess. I think they're european, and in france the minimum salary is around 1800€ before taxes. That's not a lot in the absolute, but in the foss world, it is quite comfortable.