First of all, let me say that while the admins can do what they want, I think it’s pretty unfortunate that beehaw is defederating from .world and shitjustworks. I don’t want to see the fediverse fracture, I want it to encourage conversation with others.

But, beehaw has done what they’ve done. And I must say it’s annoying to be able to see their posts and comments and not engage with them. Plus, I could see their large, still visible communities taking away from ours without people realizing their own posts and comments aren’t working.

So will .world be defederating from beehaw? I don’t have a horse in the race, I’m jw

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    To be fair, setting up an instance with your own patch is how improvements are made in the first place. Only a day after I set up my own instance, I forked the repo and started tinkering. Same case with lemm.ee. I’m a software engineer by profession but this is the first time I’ve touched Rust and inferno (I use typescript but with React/NextJS, inferno is new to me and pretty interesting). What’s funny to me is that lemmynsfw.com was the first highly populated instance I saw which is actually running their own patch. But hey, porn has always had a heavy hand in driving tech. Half of the best features of YT were ripped right out of PornHub.

    Mind you, while lemmy-ui will probably be easy to pick up for most frontend devs working with a modern tech stack, I’m sure the main Lemmy repo will drive a lot of devs away just because it’s in Rust. But I can see why it’s like that. Lemmy is barely a blip in terms of CPU and RAM. The big factor for most instances is really just going to be storage space.

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      That’s true. This is one of those things where they would probably accept a pull request. Assuming it’s just a ui fix.

      Someone already opened an issue on it.