On any of the donation threads where it came up and he replied to it, the most he ever did was some half hearted corporate PR “apology” (ironic)

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      Problem is, piefed in run on a different code so you can’t just convert the lemmy database into piefed.

      With a Lemmy fork, the transition would be seamless.

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        22 hours ago

        Sure, but you can just make a script that migrates it.

        Right now, there isn’t any problems with the code, so there is no reason or incentive to fork it.

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              11 hours ago

              It’s not technically impossible to fork and port lemmy-ui to piefed (the APIs are similar. Hell, you might not even need to modify the code.)

              I don’t mind not having lemmy-ui if i can keep using all the other lemmy clients, personally :D

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                11 hours ago

                True, when people say the apis are similar, do you mean you could use a lemmy client with it, or that it would be easy to adapt a lemmy client for it?

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                  9 hours ago

                  [AFAIK] The only thing right now, that’s stopping me from using say photon with piefed; is that most clients use the /api/v3 endpoint, but piefed only has /api/alpha. I bugged rimu about try to add a mock /api/v3 endpoint to see how far most lemmy clients would go with an unmodified instance; he’s yet to try that though.

                  But beyond that trivial point, yes; it should be very easy to adapt a lemmy client. Andrew already did so, while knowing nothing about dart; jwr1 already ported interstellar; and AP is planning to port tesseract/dubvee to piefed.