I think a common fault people have in general, and especially in open source circles, is to consider everything a zero sum game.

Obviously it's not, and especially not in the Fediverse, but when did reality prevent anyone from being assholes on the internet?

im just not uses to a project thats not even 50% complete, broadcasting it to the general public as if it matters yet.

from a project management pov there are so many risks still on the table, just why would you do that?

i get they want to bring in devs or whatnot ( though this seems absent from the posts), but this blanketing of publicity over a incomplete thing is weird to me. there are plenty of dev channels.

seems like hype-building, which im kinda adverse to

I mean, it's a mixed bag, right?

Choice is good, but standardization is also good. The fediverse works because everyone unified around one standard. It wouldn't work if everyone did their own thing.

It's good because they're keeping going to be compatible with Lemmy, but for how long? How much pain is that going to cause?

In the end, I'm for it, for the same reason i support federating Threads, more choice for more people in the same space. The risks are largely the same too (although less likely).