That is indeed the beauty, I agree. I like some opinionated software as well (Gnome for example). Opinionated always fits better than generalised stuff IMO. I can disagree with that opinion, but that just means it's not for me and might be great for others
IMO letting the default be default and offering other options is the best. Why? Bc the frontents are inconsistent and may only partially offer features lemmy-ui has or in a different way. Like leave the default bc it's the thing people are used to but give the freedom of choice having various frontends "natively" on your instance
A comment I came across like two weeks ago puts it quite well:
I haven't used piefed myself but I wouldn't want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or "reputation" as they call it):
Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.
Plus it's written in Python and has only a few hundred MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales
EDIT: Regarding Lemmy frontends, I suggest you take a look at how the instance I'm on handles it. They append a single char in front of the url to signify the various frontends
Some perfectly intelligent people just turn off all their braincells and panic when they come into contact with tech that's slightly different to what they're used to, often regardless of age
Apline is Linux/Busyibox or smth like that. However, that does not make 99% of distros not GNU/Linux.
Saying that the whole Debian, RHEL, SUSE and Arch realm (ie. stuff like Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Opensuse, EndeavourOS, Manjaro etc) and countless other distros are not GNU/Linux would be as, if not more, disingenuous as calling Alpine "GNU/Linux"
Also Alpine is not only dwarfed in terms of quantity of GNU/Linux distros, but also in amount of users/instances; both desktop- and server-side
Thx for clarifying!
I usually don't notice that bc I always use the external downloads.
It would be rly cool to see bookracy in the external downloads of Annas Archives then!
also pls keep your humour, it's funny to see the libs get mad bc they see a "Russian Federation" tag
All the people defending master-slave terminology in the comments 💀💀💀
Look it up, it was used in Bitkeeper that way iirc