I’m new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it’s pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)
I’m not super savvy but couldn’t they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I’m wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.
Yes and no, this topic comes up fairly frequently, and generally…nobody knows the best solution forward LMAO
piefed.social is a Lemmy “competitor” and is intended to be fully interoperable, but in practice it hasn’t matured yet and it’s interoperability with the Lemmy-verse is decent but has its quirks
But a big thing there is they have a multi sub type feature to combine comms like that
But some people also like the multiple comms, because they can have different viewpoints and culture.
Like lemmy.ml is a huge Tankie instance and their c/memes comms moderation skew towards censoring of comments and posts critical of Russia/China/NK and allows political memes
Where as c/meme on .world have banished most political memes directing them to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world instead
PieFed is just a Fediverse platform that aims to inter-op with Lemmy in much the same way that it aims to inter-op with any other Group-based platform (MBIN, PeerTube, NodeBB, Wordpress).
Lemmy’s “quirks” are the reason why your account won’t see Polls from MBIN, or channels from PeerTube, or posts from NodeBB, or backfilled content from Wordpress.
It’s not my intent to criticise Lemmy, but these are verifiable problems, whereas it doesn’t seem fair to criticise PieFed for problems that you can’t clearly remember.
It wasn’t my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I’d rather not them be thinking it’s a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue
Well i think Piefed is pretty close to being a drop-in remplacement.
It’s true there are several missing components. however, i recall it was the same for Lemmy 1,5 year ago. And Piefed is catching up in few months.
How close ? Let’s sum up :)
On some part, Piefed clearly outmatch Lemmy on several area :
maybe more thing that i don’t know about
some part are missing for Piefed :
There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)
The no app thing is a deal breaker for a lot of people
True, i know that users prefers mobile app over web mobile maily due to its navigation.
Anyway two mobile app are upcoming :
For me, the most deal breaker are post/comment view and mod view + notification board. Because as a mod/user, i use them a lot. They are all in development, it’s good, it will take some time. :)
Over time i noticed that i prefer the mobile version of Fediverse software. I use the web mobile version for IceShrimp, Lemmy, Piefed. The only app i use is mastodon (fedilab)
The web mobile provide me a better experience : lot features, better sync, mod tool, comment view…it depends a lot on app UI : swipe controle, draft, create post button, filters…
Completely unrelated, but you finally moved to lemmy.cafe? Congrats!
Lol I’m trying it out, davel un-instance-banned me after that meme went live and then banned me from each comm individually instead, so they could brigade my posts/comments
Soooo I decided to try out .cafe since they defed from the entire triad lolol