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6 days agoWell 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 :
- admin/moderation board
- notification (the ability to chose a post/comment/community to follow/unfollow)
- feed (multi-community)
- federation with the fediverse
- tag (to find more related content based on keyword)
maybe more thing that i don’t know about
some part are missing for Piefed :
- mobile app support (but the web mobile is good + coming soon)
- lacks of theme
- cross-post
- notification board (repport/post/coms/idea aren’t separated)
- comment/post/moderation view
- media management (lemmy doesn’t have one yet, iceshrimp is the best on that area)
There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)
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…