A lot of people talk up PieFed, and I think I found a community I like (RetroFed, they’re based around retro gaming, but they’re also new, so I’m not really trying to push them per se) so I signed up with them… so, aside from looking a little different, what’s really different here?
Not really looking for a “PieFed vs Lemmy” debate kind of thing, more of a “hey check this out” vibe.
Check out https://join.piefed.social/features
If you’re using a mobile app a lot of the differences aren’t apparent. Although on Interstellar the duplicate post merging is nice and Blorp has some PieFed-specific things too.
Mlem is the app I use on iPhone (and I’m in the beta); I use Voyager on Android, though I’m on my Android phone less.
Duplicate as in cross-post, like say someone posts the same thing to a community of the same name (or even not) on, say, .world, .ml, and a couple others? I’ve heard about that and that’s one reason I joined PieFed.
Yes
Mlem dev here. Mlem currently supports two PieFed-exclusive features:
- Polls: see !polls@piefed.social for examples.
- Adding notes to users: click on the menu in the top right of a user profile and choose “edit note”.
PieFed has many more features that we don’t support yet (see Rimu’s message). We do not yet support crosspost merging.
The most feature-complete experience on mobile would be to use the PieFed website directly. There’s a detailed comparison of different apps’ support for PieFed features here: https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app
Yes, it’s one of Piefed’s best features
Yeah, so like I’m on Interstellar right now and if the same post is in multiple communities and I open it up each of their different comment sections will be there.
I really like the bidirectional blocking, I am no longer at the mercy of my instance defedrating with ml, and people I block also cannot vote on or interact with my post.
When I was on Lemmy, I set it up to ignore all vote counts. Sort everything by new and hide the vote numbers. I see your reply has 1 vote (yours) and if I upvote it (I did) it goes up to 2. So I would want to hide that number. I want the ability to vote without being influenced by the votes of others. I never really thought about people I block. I only block those who are excessively rude, or post things I do not want to see in places I don’t expect to see them. I’m glad people you block can’t vote on your post, but if someone I block replies, I don’t really mind as long as I don’t get the notification. Let others see it and vote/act accordingly (as long as they don’t point it out to me, that’s rude).
PieFed allows you to customize some display things using custom css in your user profile. This post has some css snippets that might be of interest. Notably, this snippet seems to be what what you want:
.score { display: none !important; }
I’m just a basic user trying to divorce the corporate socials and this has all the right features. I think it’s more intuitive than lemmy. I’m excited that it might pick up in popularity.
More intuitive than Voyager **
For me (I think some of those might have been introduced to Lemmy too in the meantime. I haven’t been checking):
- Feeds!
If I want to check up on what’s going on in news, I open the feed with news. When I want to read posts about games, I open games feed.
Those can be private (your collection of communities), owned by you but shared with others, or you can subscribe to public feeds of others. And those federate, so you can follow Skavau’s hard work from any PieFed instance - Notifications (opt-int - you click what you want to follow)
- per post
- per feed
- per community
- of responses to your comments and posts
- …
- you can also set reminders about posts and comments
- Merged posts
I no longer have to jump through all the cross-posts, the comments are all together under a post. And there is info which community block starts, so you still get the context of the comments - Events
Although not often used, this is super cool feature, where you can mark a post to be an event and it will create an .ics file you can use with any calendar app - tags
I do hope Threadiverse gets closer with Mastodon (while staying a Threadiverse) and I think this is a step in right direction
- Feeds!
PieFed born because of political differences (Lemmy devs are China fanboys and banned many persons, including in Github). It’s not my experience and knowledge but all know it.
PieFed has improvements in efficiency (images and general things). More modern but new. Lemmy has more community. Probably, in the future Lemmy 'll migrate (for huge advantages) but not today.
literally I lossed my first account in Lemmy for Lemmy Bosses bullying users
😭
