Lemmy,Mbin, piefed, what even are those? (feddit.cl)

submitted 7 months ago by A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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First of all, how is called this category of programs, instance engine?

Second, why there are 3 different, basically inter-compatible projects out there, what are the benefits of each one over the others? and why does Lemmy prevail all of them.

*i will be using feddit as a umbrella term for all the reddit-like fediverse.

I don't have much of a technical Background to know how this things work under the hood, but I'm quite curious of where all of this is heading.

I see a lot of awesome features locked away in these other projects that would be just nice if it was standard to have them, like piefed's hashtag-like system that allows people to seek things by topic instead of going to a specific community hosted in a specific instance, it would instantly fix the fragmentation problem across feddit, lol.

How the future of feddit will be? will be all be using Lemmy or other specific project, or instances will use whatever project they like and they will be cross compatible enough that it won't be much of a deal what project is running underneath?

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[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They send fake (non-existing) actor ids for votes to obfuscate the identity of the real user. It is “compliant”, but completely against the spirit of a public social network.

Ok. This is a damn good reason not to run piefed. Votes are useful. Votes are public.

People that are acting in public, with a reputation to uphold and consequences, tend to act much more civil. And I want that. I want Lemmy to remain as civil as we can keep it.

I'm spinning up a new lemmy instance right now to run a copy of lemvotes and help break up this logjam. This whole question about votes needs to be over.

Its in the protocol. Votes are public.