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Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future? (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello m@teys,

I've been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we've been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn't a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we'll actually vote on this.

Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Genuine question: Lemmy provides a good, solid backbone and API, right? And a lot of 3rd party tools & clients make up for it's "deficits", even in admin tools. So why do we need a big monolith and risk fragmentation, even if the features are "native"?

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Clients can only do so much sadly. For example, they can't make polls, user flairs, implement passkeys, following threads, disabling, proper blocking implementations, and etc.

Even then, the features that clients can somewhat implement (like post tags) rely on others using the same client, and aren't considered as a standard.

For the karma features, we'll be sure to disable it if we made our own instance. And as we said; the lemmy instance will always be active and the main instance.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

True that, I suppose Piefed has it's advantages with a faster development pace.
Although I'm still sceptical, especially regarding fragmentation

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Skepticism makes sense, though if we were to make an instance we'd definitely start small at first (maybe invite-only?) and then see how it scales, just in case.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Example

!schedule@lemmings.world used to be the way to schedule posts on Lemmy.
However, over time the experience wasn't always the best, and quite regularly users would have issue getting their posts out
Piefed now has an built-in scheduler feature, which makes it easier to manage