• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    5410·
    1 day ago

    PieFed > Lemmy (In my opinion)

    I switched to PieFed a while ago, it’s the same thing but better (IMO)
    It also doesn’t have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy, and the UX is a lot better (IMO)

    It also has quite a few nice features that Lemmy lacks. Try out both, see which you like.

    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      6 hours ago

      It also doesn’t have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy

      Oh you sweet summer child.

      They’re just hard coding keywords to limit reach of usauthoritarianism and queer community.

      https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/3230397/-/comment/13562251

      You’ll need to login to view content, because they got the original post deleted but it’s still cached on fedia.

      • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        From what I remember it was about some discover feed feature or something and they tried to curate it a bit, remove greentexts and stuff that had a ton of posts or something.

      • quinceyBones@lemmy.zipEnglish
        22·
        4 hours ago

        It was an anti meme feature that has since been removed on request. The PieFed devs are very open to the community and act lighting fast.

        Meanwhile people have been asking Lemmy for a working block function for years and they refuse. And let’s not forget the hardcoded front page banners Lemmy puts on all instances begging for donations to do who knows what as it never updates.

      • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        I use Voyager, it’s great. https://getvoyager.app/

        Create your account first on PieFed then login to voyager, there are onbording steps that the mobile app doesn’t yet have.

        One of the reasons I like PieFed more is because of good UX, like onbording

      • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        A tradition brought over from Reddit, where people were constantly shitting on Reddit hah

      • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
        122·
        19 hours ago

        In a way yes, because this post is in a community running on a Lemmy instance. But at the same time: The user was did not use Lemmy to write the Lemmy trashing :)

        (And Lemmy is good. It’s just, PieFed is so much better!)

      • Auster@thebrainbin.org
        6·
        17 hours ago

        If that’s trashing, most debates I’ve seen would be bloodbaths. e.e"

        Irony aside, if someone is politely criticized, what seems to be what the OP did, and the receiver sees it as a problem, the receiver shouldn’t be a public figure.

      • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        56·
        1 day ago

        The person you’re replying to is actually coming here from Piefed, à la the magic of the fediverse.

    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      If you’re on mobile you probably won’t really notice much of a difference, the mobile apps are yet to implement the new features.

      • nocturne@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        Mlem is doing a pretty good job of adding features as their apis become available. I have a feeling the next TestFlight will have polls added.

      • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
        332·
        1 day ago

        Some additional features that PieFed has:

        • You can create posts with polls.
        • Crossposts shows comments from everywhere that something is crossposted to (organized into their own sections)
        • Feeds for combining multiple communities into one.
        • You can blur images with spoiler tags instead of having to use NSFW.
        • You can tag posts and then filter down posts based on those tags within a community.
        • You can set a time/date for when something gets posted.

        That’s just what I can think of off the top of my head. Otherwise a more complete list can be found here: https://join.piefed.social/features/

      • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
        14·
        1 day ago

        It has more features than Lemmy atm, such as custom feeds, flairs or tags or whatever you call them, community moving, etc. (Some of which will also come to Lemmy in v1.0.0): https://join.piefed.social/features/

        Since it uses Python and not Rust, it can be developed faster* => faster development and more first time contributions.

        Of course it isn’t perfect, it has its downsides as any other software. You might also find it more attractive if you don’t like the Lemmy devs’ political views.

        Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

    • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      How does one “move” to piefed? Do I keep my subscriptions and everything tied to my account?

      • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
        16·
        1 day ago

        You pick a piefed server and create an account there. You can transfer subscriptions, but that is not something i have done. Your content posted by your .world account stays with that account however.

        • Ofiuco@piefed.caEnglish
          7·
          22 hours ago

          As someone who had to jump ship more than 3 times, I keep saying to think of their accounts as disposable because we don’t know if we picked right or when/if the mods/admins/hosts will go crazy.

          • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
            4·
            22 hours ago

            I started on .world and quickly realized I wanted a smaller instance. So I moved to .ee and sopuli, then when .ee went down I decided to not limit myself to a single instance. I do not have as many accounts as cm02 does, 4 total I think. But only use 3 of them much.

            • Auster@thebrainbin.org
              2·
              17 hours ago

              Adding to the thread of account redundancy and backups based on personal experiences…

              I started I think it was on .ml or .world, quickly found kbin.social and preferred it, it died and I didn’t have a culture of backing up accounts, then I moved to lemm.ee and I kinda forgot to make a backup in the grace period before it died (oopsie) but at least had been hoarding on RSS feeds so not all was lost, then found Mbin was a thing, then found about external RSS’s and searching for fediverse links for pulling external posts.

              Adjacent to external RSS’s, also found out when an instance goes poof, the community/group/magazine keeps propagating, just as a derelict one. So while it’d be a moderation hell, at least it’s somewhat preserved.

              So moral of the story, there are a few ways to back stuff up, and thus, adding to the choir, please do use them.

              And an addendum, PieFed also has external RSS feeds by default, so for example, piefed.social provides their own RSS feed for !fediverse@lemmy.world.

        • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
          2·
          19 hours ago

          I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱

          It’s nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.

          • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            19 hours ago

            I lost my piefed.ee account too. I have my subscriptions backed up manually, but it would probably be a good idea to export, then save it in Bitwarden.