Would you trust an open source software maintained by a developer who you disagree with politically (or otherwise don't like the developer)? (sh.itjust.works)

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"Trust" as in: trust it enough to run it on your machine.

(And assuming that you can't understand code yourself)

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[-] 0x01@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Lemmy is exactly that for a lot of people, the developers are quite controversial.

Obviously most users are not installing the software from those developers on their personal machines, but serving a federated instance certainly involves doing so.

[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I run thousands of pieces of software and I have no idea what the political leanings of the developers are. Obviously I know about the main Lemmy developers because this seems to be a recurring topic here. However why would I start caring about these particular developers now?

There have been developers who have done shady things in their projects and it usually torpedoes the trust in the project and people fork and move away. However whatever I may think about the Lemmy developers politics I have no reason to believe they are doing nefarious things in their software.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't "trust" tankies, because no authoritarian can ever be trusted, nor do I trust lemmy. I just prefer to vote with my content/wallet, and Reddit showed the world they don't deserve their user base, or any of their content.

This is an open non-profit platform anyone can scrape. That's good enough for me, until something with a better value proposition comes along.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

i'm so excited about the progress piefed is making and my home instance's plans to migrate

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

Wait. How similar is piefed to Lemmy? Does Voyager work with it?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

extremely similar with some serious quality of life improvements and better dev leadership. the api, per my understanding, is similar to lemmy, but not wholly compatible. voyager, i do not think, does not support piefed currently (i will need to switch apps)

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