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Cake day: April 24th, 2024

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  • OP linked to an entry in their newsletter. If you check out their site, they are being pretty clear that they’re in the business of “Independent technology for modern publishing”, stating in pretty big letters that “Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.”.

    Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.



  • I don’t think this is accurate for either of the two projects to be honest.

    PieFed made sure to make their API as close to Lemmy’s as possible, and they created feeds so that it would be as easy as possible for Lemmy to integrate in the future.

    Vibes between the developers of the two platforms seems good enough.

    No need to make up drama where there is none.


  • There is always a chance of open source projects dying off, but if there’s an active user base who enjoy the software it will usually not die easy.

    Mbin is a good example of this. It started out as Kbin, which was a project dominated by one very active developer who made the whole thing on his own. Unfortunately he did not prioritize getting other people on board, and he then suffered what seems to have been pretty severe health problems. Last thing we heard from him was a picture from a hospital bed. I hope he’s alright.

    Thankfully, as what he had made was open source, Kbin lives on in the form of Mbin. If you check my domain you’ll see I’m still on a site called “kbin.earth” rather than mbin - this is why.

    PieFed’s developer is better at taking other developers onboard. If you check out !piefed_meta@piefed.social you’ll see monthly development updates. The head developer (Rimu) runs the show, but seven other people contributed last month alone.

    If Rimu decides to quit, other people can and will take over as long as there’s an interest. PieFed has the added advantage here of being written in Python, which is a language many people know.

    So it should be pretty robust, all in all.

    As for the future, PieFed just now launched app support. I guess one thing to look out for is the emergence of alternative user interfaces.

    Developments are happening fast and the developers are quite creative. It’s fun to follow. :)