Lemmy is developed by tankies though, after being kicked off of Reddit and going out and making their own (federated) replacement.
PieFed is a forum software developed by anti-alternative-facts-ers, which also has many more features than Lemmy despite being far newer, owing its development speed to it being in Python rather than the difficult language of Rust that most developers avoid. Examples include categories of communities (like multi-reddits), which are user customizable and shareable, and combination together of all comments from every cross-post, which helps deal with the fragmentation effect inherent in federated forums, and flairs (user and post), and polls, etc. It’s great!
Read more, or try it out firsthand at the European-based PieFed.social (primary instance where all the features are tested out first) or PieFed.World (run by Lemmy.world team) or others - once you see it you’ll forever think of Lemmy as being far behind.
Best of all is that PieFed features aim at putting power into the hands of users to make more informed decisions - e.g. democratization of moderation and putting the community sidebar text at the bottom of every post in the web view - while in contrast Lemmy, owing to its tankie background, has ended up more authoritian than Reddit itself was (e.g. there is a modlog in Lemmy but no modmail, no notification of a moderation event, no method of appeal or even to ask questions, and you can’t even DM someone when the name of the account that removed your content simply says “mod” - it didn’t always used to be that way btw, that was a feature that Lemmy specifically added, to obfuscate the name of the mod, even while a modmail still does not exist yet).
Lemmy is primarily developed with instance admins in mind to run their own Reddit 2.0 however they like, while PieFed provides more features to end-users - it even has several that not only Lemmy but even Reddit itself lacks!
It’s definitely the latest hot tool on the Fediverse, it’ll be great to know about it even if for some reason you decide to stick with a Lemmy instance. Although my guess is that one glance at the features and you will fall in love, switch, and stay with it forever - yes I truly believe that:-).
Like one of the absolute best features if how it allows you to have your cake and eat it too: on the Threadiverse it can be harder to find more niche content, but those Categories of Communities (oops, now called “Topics” I forgot) really help you dig deeper. A positive example is poetry, often ignored by most Lemmings, but it’s one of the featured ones - e.g. Arts & Crafts @ piefed.social, then the sub-category/topic of “Arts”.
e.g. if you get overwhelmed by “politics” literally EVERYWHERE, you can unsubscribe to the political communities, yet always have politics available at the touch of a button by visiting the News & Politics Topic page (subdivisions of USA, World, and RSS Feeds), this is what I mean by “having your cake” (ability to not join these communities, so that their content does not overwhelm your Subscribed feed) while also “eating it too” (ability to still read & easily find it).
As you can guess, it can take awhile to get used to what PieFed offers and fully optimize it to tailor it to your wants - but it’s just fantastic that it even offers it in the first place, free, and also free of tankie philosophies as well, it’s amazing!:-P
No politics? Shit, I needa find me a nice app, fast. I am a fan of Jerboa for its simplicity, but it’s Lemmy-only, I reckon. I think it’s an “official” Lemmy app (could be wrong, tho)
Not just no politics but the ability to both have far less of it while still reading up on it when you want! Tbf a true “no politics” would be nearly impossible - e.g. is an OC painting “political” if it depicts an image of Trump?
The best features of PieFed are going to be in the web UI for awhile until app devs catch up. In addition to Voyager as someone mentioned, there is also Interstellar and several others, as well as a Thunder fork (but not checked into the main code available on the App store yet).
I don’t know what piefed is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask. XD
But otherwise, yes, there’s only so many times one can try to explain reality to tankie cultists.
Lemmy is developed by tankies though, after being kicked off of Reddit and going out and making their own (federated) replacement.
PieFed is a forum software developed by anti-alternative-facts-ers, which also has many more features than Lemmy despite being far newer, owing its development speed to it being in Python rather than the difficult language of Rust that most developers avoid. Examples include categories of communities (like multi-reddits), which are user customizable and shareable, and combination together of all comments from every cross-post, which helps deal with the fragmentation effect inherent in federated forums, and flairs (user and post), and polls, etc. It’s great!
Read more, or try it out firsthand at the European-based PieFed.social (primary instance where all the features are tested out first) or PieFed.World (run by Lemmy.world team) or others - once you see it you’ll forever think of Lemmy as being far behind.
Best of all is that PieFed features aim at putting power into the hands of users to make more informed decisions - e.g. democratization of moderation and putting the community sidebar text at the bottom of every post in the web view - while in contrast Lemmy, owing to its tankie background, has ended up more authoritian than Reddit itself was (e.g. there is a modlog in Lemmy but no modmail, no notification of a moderation event, no method of appeal or even to ask questions, and you can’t even DM someone when the name of the account that removed your content simply says “mod” - it didn’t always used to be that way btw, that was a feature that Lemmy specifically added, to obfuscate the name of the mod, even while a modmail still does not exist yet).
Lemmy is primarily developed with instance admins in mind to run their own Reddit 2.0 however they like, while PieFed provides more features to end-users - it even has several that not only Lemmy but even Reddit itself lacks!
Thanks for the expansive information! I’m very interested! I’ll definitely try it out!
It’s definitely the latest hot tool on the Fediverse, it’ll be great to know about it even if for some reason you decide to stick with a Lemmy instance. Although my guess is that one glance at the features and you will fall in love, switch, and stay with it forever - yes I truly believe that:-).
Like one of the absolute best features if how it allows you to have your cake and eat it too: on the Threadiverse it can be harder to find more niche content, but those Categories of Communities (oops, now called “Topics” I forgot) really help you dig deeper. A positive example is poetry, often ignored by most Lemmings, but it’s one of the featured ones - e.g. Arts & Crafts @ piefed.social, then the sub-category/topic of “Arts”.
e.g. if you get overwhelmed by “politics” literally EVERYWHERE, you can unsubscribe to the political communities, yet always have politics available at the touch of a button by visiting the News & Politics Topic page (subdivisions of USA, World, and RSS Feeds), this is what I mean by “having your cake” (ability to not join these communities, so that their content does not overwhelm your Subscribed feed) while also “eating it too” (ability to still read & easily find it).
As you can guess, it can take awhile to get used to what PieFed offers and fully optimize it to tailor it to your wants - but it’s just fantastic that it even offers it in the first place, free, and also free of tankie philosophies as well, it’s amazing!:-P
No politics? Shit, I needa find me a nice app, fast. I am a fan of Jerboa for its simplicity, but it’s Lemmy-only, I reckon. I think it’s an “official” Lemmy app (could be wrong, tho)
I heard on the grapevine that Voyager is working on Piefed support.
It’s in beta right now. I’m using it to comment.
Voyager looks like it’d fit better on iOS. But maybe I’ll give it a try, eventually
There’s Summit for Android
Not just no politics but the ability to both have far less of it while still reading up on it when you want! Tbf a true “no politics” would be nearly impossible - e.g. is an OC painting “political” if it depicts an image of Trump?
The best features of PieFed are going to be in the web UI for awhile until app devs catch up. In addition to Voyager as someone mentioned, there is also Interstellar and several others, as well as a Thunder fork (but not checked into the main code available on the App store yet).