• Tango@piefed.ca
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    4 days ago

    I really don’t ask for a HUGE amount, I think:

    1. The main maintainer of the codebase isn’t a power trippin’ bastard (if they are a PTB, then I don’t trust them not to surreptitiously inject malicious code into it at some point)

    2. The person who owns/runs the instance isn’t a power trippin’ bastard (if they are a PTB, then I don’t trust them not to basically function as a malicious man-in-the-middle attack at some point)

    3. The instance isn’t hosted in the USA (if it is hosted in the USA, then I don’t trust the instance to be resilient against governmental overreach and spying) or any other untrustworthy countries

    That’s kind of it, really. But so far, I’m struggling to get past point 1. Both Lemmy and Piefed seem to be maintained by nutjobs. I’m honestly considering going back to Reddit. Maybe kbin will be OK…

    EDIT: I mean mbin. Apparently kbin is dead.

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      3 days ago

      Well good news, Mbin doesn’t have a “main” maintainer, so it should clear number 1 easily. It was forked specifically because Ernest was too hands on with /kbin, so they adopted a more open by design model for Mbin’s development.

      To quote their Github:

      a community-focus project embracing the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4). No single maintainer.