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I notice you're on world, and I want to mention that World explicitly does support the Lemmy.ML admins including financially.
When I complained about the recent banner on World which is asking for donations which go directly to ML and pay the salaries the known pro-war, pro-genocide, and Transphobic Dessalines and Nutomic, the Lemmy.World Support moderator had this to say:
-Serinus, click here for link
The fediverse does not need Lemmy, including Lemmy.ML, Hexbear, and Lemmy.World, those instances are a sickness that the fediverse will survive.
Spread the word and consider moving over to a PieFed instance.
What is the difference with PieFed and how is the app ecosystem?
Even when I'm on the phone I always use the browser so idk about the apps, the Piefed API is 95% similar to Lemmy.
Piefed is written in Flask which is similar to Django that I think but I'm not certain Lemmy is built on. The practical difference is the Piefed developers aren't the Lemmy developers, so you can use Piefed without inadvertently supporting horrible people.
Lemmy is written in Rust.