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  • I dislike Evil, and would never recommend it to anyone looking for a modal editing solution for Emacs. I would rather break my pinky with the modifiers than use Evil.

    • Evil is SLOOWWW: its startup time is 10x longer than other modal editing packages.
    • It has high cost of integration with other packages; editing-related packages rarely play well with Evil unless specifically designed for it.
    • We can do better than vi. Nowadays, there are some more modern alternatives to vi, like Kakoune that fix some of the fundamental problems with vi. One such problem is the fact that you cannot know what you are acting on until after the command completes: Kakoune solves this by having a unique noun verb syntax rather than vi’s verb noun syntax. This means that you get constant feedback about what you’re acting on before you act on it, since objects are always highlighted.

    Instead, for anyone looking for a serious and actually good modal editing, I would suggest them to try out meow. It fixes all of the problems I mentioned above, and makes more improvements to the vi experience that I didn’t mention.










    • Do you want microblogging alongside regular forums?
      • YES: Choose mbin.
      • NO:
        • Do you want a native app?
          • YES: Choose Lemmy… for now.
          • NO: Choose PieFed.

    I’ve been very interested in PieFed and kept a close watch on it; the only reason I’m on Lemmy is the lack of a stable API on PieFed (which means no apps). Here are some of the reasons I believe PieFed is superior than Lemmy:

    • More lightweight to host; imo makes it “more decentralized” since the requirements to self-host are less and thus available to more people.
    • New and innovative features
    • Responsive developer
    • PieFed is opinionated to foster a positive environment. The platform itself is designed in some places to be unattractive to tankies, nazis, trolls, transphobics, etc.
    • I don’t believe in seperation of the art from the artist. The artist somehow always profits from the art, be it donations, paywalls, etc. The developers of Lemmy are tankies, and one of them is a transphobe.