Draconic_NEO

This sucks, I hope someone forks it before it breaks. Either that or hopefully most of its nice features get ported/added to Photon. So mods don't have to end up living without them.

Just wish that Photon had the same features as Tesseract. I do think Photon looks better but Tesseract is way more functional. It has Fediseer integration, has MBFC integration, and also has better options for user management.

Instagram and threads (and parts of the clusterfuck that is facebook) are written in python and seem to have scaled fine.

How much of them? Parts being made in python isn't the same as your whole backend being written in 90% or nothing but python. But I guess we'll see.

If a new python release breaks compatibility, Piefed can keep using the old version of python.

Technically yes, though I wonder how long that would last if the next jump is anything like the last. I can already imagine the people bitching about "SeCUriTy" just like many were when people talked about maintaining backwards compatibility or keeping python2 support in the days of the transition to python3.

I mean, maybe? I don't know, I don't live in that mirror universe where python supplanted JS. Though considering how hard the push was to abandon and burn down python2, I have a feeling even if it was a web scripting language the same push would've happened and it would've just broken a lot more stuff since you know "sECuRiTY".

I don't really agree that it's an attempt to centralize the fediverse but I do think that the push and praise for it feels extremely unnatural, especially how people are bragging about liking and wanting the reputational features of it, and being able to hide the modlog. Like dude those are the biggest reasons people left Reddit, and now suddenly "people" are just going gaga for those same anti-features. That seems more than fishy to me...

I think votes in general should not be private, because this is like a public plaza what you say is public, and attaching a reputation because of down votes is dangerously bullying and a slippery slope, so piefed doesn’t actually feel like my pie at the moment.

I agree with this, both of these things are bad on their own but together they are extremely bad. Like it encourages the same groupthink as there is on Reddit while also allowing easy vote manipulation to help yourself and hurt others. Really bad combination.

I agree, canceling a software over that is just purely reactionary, an opensource software no less.

I mean it's my first account, and also the only one I use on Lemmy.world communities.

Oh thanks, I think that's the first time someone's said it to me on Lemmy. Which is weird since I've had multiple others before. This account is two years old, and I have other accounts too.

Yes I don't think that demolishing whole ecosystems is a good thing. I think that it's a shitty mentality of wanting shiny and new shit and fixing what isn't broken. I am a believer in legacy support and I find it weird and concerning to see and hear people complain about it. You do realize that if Python had been the Web's scripting engine instead of JS, a lot of Websites would've been, and still would be trashed and unusable due to said breaking changes with zero regard for legacy support. Thankfully that wasn't the case, but it does go to show that legacy support and backwards compatibility is important.

Are you denying the problem of Backwards compatibility with python versions? It was and still is a big problem today. I'm still seeing the affects of that though many communities. I don't really think it's only good for tinkering but I know its developers clearly do, otherwise they wouldn't have subjected us to the transition from python 2.7 to python 3 and the fallout that followed, and people wouldn't have been so eager to comply with them dropping python 2.7 support in all their python integrated envionments before you could say bitrot.

Yeah somehow that doesn't give me much confidence for the future.

It is reactionary to want to cancel an open source project or codebase based on grievances with a particular person or their opinions.