I’ve seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,
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What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I’m more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).
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Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
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Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
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What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, “the website is the app” is not how I like to do it
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Any other questions you think I should be asking?
- Found this through a Google search: Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack:
- instance blocking
- comments combination, posts only appear once
- keyword filter
- topics (admin-managed feeds)
- user-managed feeds, public and private
- tags
- flairs
- multi communities
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Yes & yes. They’re built on ActivityPub and interact with each other, though the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn’t (like tags) aren’t visible from Lemmy. And Lemmy can subscribe and interact with posts from PieFed.
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Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.
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App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.
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Can’t think of anything.
What are the disadvantages of piefed over Lemmy?
Imo, no good IOS mobile apps. Mlem, Voyager and others are great. If something similar existed for PieFed I would dump my lemmy account immediately. They now have Interstellar but it’s not stellar.
- It is more opinionated than Lemmy. Comments with -10 score are automatically collapsed, users with low karma have icon next to their name, 4Chan screenshots are automatically reported.
The comment collapsing I think is fine; Lemmy-style forums already heavily rely on voting to move content around, and I think net -10 is a pretty good indicator that the comment in question has bad info, is a troll, or is otherwise not good content (as voted by the local community).
The low karma icon I’m seeing out in the wild and honestly, so far every time I see someone with that icon I look at that profile and sure enough there really are a lot of downvoted comments and antagonistic behavior. It’s probably handy to determine whether someone is sealioning, trolling, or just otherwise has a lot of bad takes (again, as voted by their local community) before deciding whether to waste energy trying to engage in a thoughtful conversation.
4chan screenshots being reported is pretty opinionated (the rationale being that it’s not about the content itself, it’s about the normalization of 4chan and the enablement of the alt-right pipeline it provides), but hopefully it’s at least optional?
What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy?
It has more features, such as flairs, a way to move communities somewhere else, the ability to see comments from all crossposts, multi-communities, and it has a much faster development pace. The UX still needs some work, but that can be improved over time.
From a technical perspective it’s made with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it’s easier to host too.
Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
Yes and yes.
Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
You can export your Lemmy account settings and import them to Piefed, but not the other way around.
What android app options are available for PieFed?
with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it’s easier to host too.
I can’t imagine it’s much easier than Lemmy. As far as self hosting goes Lemmy is pretty standard. And with PieFed being python it’s bound to be less efficient at the same scale.
