It also helps that nutomic and Dessalines are both certifiable.
It's kind of a shame. I really like the platform and the concepts inherent to federated social media, but it really sucks that the maintainers of the codebase are hostile to any ideology but their own.
Piefed is a beauty. Made to be easily to contribute to, great morals and focus on tools for safety, ability to subscribe to posts for notifications sorts like the forum days, compatible with lemmy and discourse forum federation iirc and the main developer seems really chill and like he cares about making a good and healthy platform
I think if you opened a separate issue about it it would get more attention as it was probably read in that thread and he didnt have a response in the moment and now he probably forgot the question is in that issue
(I just contribute feature requests and my opinion so idk to be honest but i would like the feature)
There are several bad architectural decisions and when your architecture is wrong, the quality of the code itself doesn't really matter (to be more specific, I was talking about architecture in my previous comment, not the code itself, I don't know Rust so I can't really comment on that).
To fix the architecture, major parts would have to be rewritten, almost making it a different codebase, because pretty much no part would be left unturned.