We are much too small to be fighting over the best way to view the couple of posts a day on posts.
There’s much more to Piefed than looking at posts. Like the style of management, cultures, the variety in communities and the apps/frontends.
OHHH I misread (or didnt read at all). This is about redditors! I thought you were talking about lemmy vs piefed! drrrrrrr
ok woops.
Can anyone eli5 the diff between piefed and lemmy? Just two platforms over the Fediverse with diff apps? Same protocol?
They’re both link aggregator (Reddit-like) software that communicate via ActivityPub.
ActivityPub is a general purpose way for different kinds of social media to communicate with one another. It’s not just link aggregators, there are twitter-like services using mastodon or instagram-a-likes like pixelfed
In theory they can all communicate with each other as long as they federate (i.e. are happy to exchange data with each other)
All fediverse apps talk to one another. Like I’m doing right now.
There’s more the same than different.
Well, not really. All fediverse apps talk to at least one other fediverse app. But not all do correctly talk to all.
PieFed is Lemmy on steroids: PieFed has just a ton more features that Lemmy lacks, which due to being written in Python rather than Rust the gap will only ever get even wider, though Lemmy has a bit more polished web UI (unless you use an app like Voyager or Boost or some such, in which case it doesn’t matter).
Things PieFed has that Lemmy lacks: this is too long to say all of them but a few are Categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, polls, flairs (both user and post), hashtags, the ability to truly block all users from an instance, etc.
Things Lemmy does better at: searching, consistency in feature support, and supporting Tankies, if that’s your thing.
I dread to think of the performance costs of Python fkr backend though
PieFed has consolidated comments, flairs, spoilers, polls, topics, feeds (like multireddits), proper blocks, piped video integration, disclaimer message, better mod and reporting tools.
Based on your and mesa’s comments I’ve updated https://join.piefed.social/features/ to be much more comprehensive. Thanks for the inspiration :)
People ask that comparison question a lot, you might want to bookmark that page.
That was a treat to read!
Helpful resource, thanks!
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
Cracked me up a bit for being so specific, though I can imagine why it exists
I like it! It is really fun.
It’s less that they’re arguing against their¹ own best interests, and more like their best interests are all fucked up.
You don’t need to worry about:
- censorship, if you only repeat what you’re told to, never going too deep
- content manipulation, if you consume whatever is smeared on your snout, like a dog²
- power structures, if you’re a bit too eager to bend and say “yes, master, this filthy thing will do what it is told to”
- genuine human connections, if you’re as fake as a three euros bill
If you reduce yourself from a rational human being to a subservient thing, then it is indeed in your best interests to stay in Reddit. Because for you all the benefits offered by the Fediverse are pointless additions.
- “They” in this case refers to the typical Reddit user. It’s an abstraction, based on their collective behaviour; it should not be equated to any individual there.
- I love dogs but come on, let’s admit they aren’t exactly picky on what they eat.
Tell that to BlueSky
