Chromium is a well-organized and mature codebase, which makes syncing changes relatively easy (also Brave’s chageset is limited in scope, so less conflicts to worry about). PieFed is neither mature nor well-organized. Maintaining a downstream project from it would be a nightmare.

I didn’t downvote your comment. But let me argue anyway.

Lots of people flock to PieFed because it is not made by the Lenmy devs who are unpalatably heavy handed in their “moderation” on the ml instance. One would hope this means PieFed offers more freedom to use the software how you like. So it’s funny that it’s even stricter “moderation” AND NOW ITS HARDCODED so it affects every instance.

lol hardcoded shit everywhere. that codebase is so bad it’s entertaining. you should make a standalone post about this here and crosspost to !programming_horror@programming.dev