I wish this enmity didn’t exist.
It’s in nobody’s interests, really.
Yeah, I’ve got very good reasons why I prefer PieFed over Lemmy, but a bigger Fediverse is a better thing, so Lemmy is definitely not a bad thing. It’s just can be argued to be less good than PieFed.
But still, good is good, even if something better exists.
I don’t think PieFed’s developers are developing it in order to damage Lemmy. I believe it’s developed simply because the developers believe it’s a good project that should exist.
It’s going to damage the Fediverse as a whole if we launch some kind of a “browser war” between different Fediverse serverside softwares!
Absolutely!
But it is scary how easily a tiny minority can end up looking like the majority if it’s the only one that bothers voicing its thoughts! I used to be active on an F-website operated by the same company that operates “Threads”, and damn I had to write often that “come on, this thing was said by maybe four people, in a group of 15 000. It is very unlikely theirs is actually a very common way of thinking!”
Here people are maybe a little bit more able to understand this phenomenon, but we are human beings all the same. In other words, rather stupid. Therefore, I believe it’s good to always be afraid that all kind of cognitive biases are active in people’s heads, needing to be countered :)