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  • While some will claim that, I personally believe it’s just as simple as the dev(s) doing good work. Code practices and readability goes a long way.

    Both languages have relative popularity, but both are easy to debug, easy to work with. Both are good at what they do. Rust has an edge with raw speed and python with its community packages.

    Looking at both codebases, I can tell you Piefed is immensely easier to parse and potentially make changes to. Lemmy is very hard to get into. At least for me. Don’t get me wrong, both are awesome, but Lemmy is significantly harder to figure out what is going on.

    Source: 18+ year software dev here.








  • I believe we are also looking at survivorship bias.

    A vast majority of small devices fail sometime in the first 10 years they are made. Some are designed that way, some are used heavily and broken after a while, some will stick around until their battery becomes a spicy pillow. Lithium will eventually stop working so no matter what, that small device that you cant replace the battery WILL die.

    But some devices have parts that are repairable and they tend to stick around.



  • Some instances have different ways of making money. TILVids for example shares money from donations with the creators. Theres also support buttons that help creators out. As well as ads on some instances as themes. Most are just nonprofits trying to do good in the world.

    Its not as popular for the same reason your on fediverse, the interface allows anyone without ads to see your videos. The insentive does not always need to be $$, it most cases, its community building.