So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.
What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?
Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.
On which one should we put our weight?
Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781
I like both. The main thing keeping me from using piefed is it’s atrocious image viewer though. I like how Lemmy just spits out the image when you click the thumbnail.
A fair point, but on the other hand PieFed images render without needing that expansion (ah, I see I’ve chosen that in my settings, so it probably is not that way by default), and the other image modes (Tile and Wide Tile) offer an even more streamlined experience for viewing a bunch of images in a community or in a multi-community Topic/Feed, if that is what you want.
So fwiw I don’t find myself ever missing that image expansion feature of Lemmy. I don’t see a similar option in my Lemmy account’s settings menu either. It’s more like Lemmy needs that feature, whereas PieFed provides a different workflow to meet that same underlying need.
I do remember enjoying that Lemmy feature though:-). The major downside is when something looked like an image but was actually a link, and then I start cursing at the fact that they can look so similar to one another.😂
The image viewer on piefed will crop an image without showing any indication that it was cropped, which confuses me a lot of the time (and makes scrolling Tumblr comms impossible). I think just spitting out the image directly is way better. Its form over function.
Lemmy can auto expand images as well. (Accidentally opening a link when you meant to expand an image is very annoying though)
Yeah I hate that cropping effect, though both Lemmy and PieFed do a similar thing in not quite “cropping” but only showing the first image, and then when you click through to the full post you can see a second or more images. So I just get used to clicking on the image and having it render in full in its own little pop-up-like state (where it takes over the screen, but that’s more intrusive than the pop-out that Lemmy does).
I suppose it depends which communities you browse regularly - like for the main meme and shitposting comms that pretty much only ever have just the one image I see what you mean, but for comics or certain communities like tenforward there’s often a second bonus image that makes it worthwhile to have gone into the post, which I usually do anyway in order to read the comments. Lemmy’s pop-out is primarily useful when you don’t care about reading the comments at all.
Also, it looks like the blorp alternative UI (see in action at https://blorp.piefed.world/home) doesn’t crop, maybe?
Blorp dev here. As of right now, images should not be cropped. Theres always a chance we encounter some weirdness with reading the aspect ratio of an image, but if everything goes correctly, it shouldn’t crop. A few people have asked for a max height for post thumbnails so they don’t take up too much vertical space, but as of right now, that hasn’t been implemented.