Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Mbin.

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  • The process outlined above is “co-operative” in the sense that the moderators of the old community have decided to make the move and initiate the process themselves using their piefed.social accounts.

    But also anyone could choose to ‘fork’ the old community, with or without the old community mods involvement. The old community would not be locked and would continue as-is while the local copy of it would then be a separate community with all the old content in it. They would then diverge from that point onwards.

    I imagine there might sometimes be a need to reverse this process too, to re-associate a local community with it’s remote counterpart. Or to merge two communities…













  • Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you’ve never written a DB app before and the only DB you’ve ever seen before is SQLite. You’ll get a prototype real fast but you’ll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.

    Same thing.