the unfortunate event of lemm.ee shutting down lead to a lot of new instances adopting piefed. the dev team said this lead to a lot more feedback that drives development.

I'm so onboard with this.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's always some silver lining.

I think this increased adoption of PieFed might even benefit instances sticking to Lemmy; Lemmy development will likely speed up, to avoid making Lemmy seem "obsolete" in comparison with PieFed.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not too sure about this.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Perhaps. I can't rule out completely the possibility of Lemmy stagnating. In that case as PieFed development progresses, and the feature gap becomes wide, more and more instances shift from one to another. I do think however the Lemmy devs won't simply see their software being replaced without "fighting back" (in a good way).

A third possibility would be specialisation - PieFed and Lemmy still coexisting, but taking different niches.