I’m new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it’s pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)
I’m not super savvy but couldn’t they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I’m wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.
Yes and no, this topic comes up fairly frequently, and generally…nobody knows the best solution forward LMAO
piefed.social is a Lemmy “competitor” and is intended to be fully interoperable, but in practice it hasn’t matured yet and it’s interoperability with the Lemmy-verse is decent but has its quirks
But a big thing there is they have a multi sub type feature to combine comms like that
But some people also like the multiple comms, because they can have different viewpoints and culture.
Like lemmy.ml is a huge Tankie instance and their c/memes comms moderation skew towards censoring of comments and posts critical of Russia/China/NK and allows political memes
Where as c/meme on .world have banished most political memes directing them to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world instead
PieFed is just a Fediverse platform that aims to inter-op with Lemmy in much the same way that it aims to inter-op with any other Group-based platform (MBIN, PeerTube, NodeBB, Wordpress).
Lemmy’s “quirks” are the reason why your account won’t see Polls from MBIN, or channels from PeerTube, or posts from NodeBB, or backfilled content from Wordpress.
It’s not my intent to criticise Lemmy, but these are verifiable problems, whereas it doesn’t seem fair to criticise PieFed for problems that you can’t clearly remember.
It wasn’t my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I’d rather not them be thinking it’s a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue
Well 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 :
maybe more thing that i don’t know about
some part are missing for Piefed :
There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)
The no app thing is a deal breaker for a lot of people
It’s not a straight deal breaker for me, but it’s a pretty big barrier, I just can’t leave Boost lol 😔
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…
Completely unrelated, but you finally moved to lemmy.cafe? Congrats!
Lol I’m trying it out, davel un-instance-banned me after that meme went live and then banned me from each comm individually instead, so they could brigade my posts/comments
Soooo I decided to try out .cafe since they defed from the entire triad lolol
what quirks??
Iirc it was mostly around notifications and federation delays
Tbf, federation delays occur for every instance - and in particular Lemmy.World is well known for how they cause them.
OTOH, the flagship instance PieFed.social does have quite a bit more of those than I’ve typically seen on any Lemmy instances. Here is a list of other PieFed instances readily available to join. They won’t have features be added as quickly, but might be more stable.
Mostly relating to small matters of polish. Like there’s a post preview feature, but that isn’t provided (yet) for comments.
One super annoying feature is when you receive a notification for something that you cannot actually see. Sometimes it relates to all the variety of auto-collapsing or auto-hiding of comments (therefore I turned all of that off), but e.g. you can receive a notification from someone that you have added to your block list if they reply to you, yet you will then be directed to a page displaying an error (when instead, that notification itself should have been removed by the PieFed backend).
Oh, and searching is crap (tbf, Reddit’s is too? However, Lemmy’s is fairly great, and about to get even better by separating out post titles I hear), plus while cross-posts are properly joined together, you cannot actually initiate a cross-post from PieFed.
PieFed is great for a new person to join the Fediverse, or for an old hand (who knows how to go to Lemmy in order to get around these limitations) to use as a daily driver, but it hasn’t reached feature parity yet with Lemmy.
OTOH, it has already surpassed Lemmy in so many ways, and Lemmy is not without its quirks as well. Chief among those might be how authoritarian it is - there is a modlog, but no modmail, and the account name of the mod who performed an action is actively hidden, replaced with just “mod”. Also the “instance blocking” feature is horribly misnamed, as it only acts as a community mute, whereas in contrast, PieFed has a true instance blocking feature that I use to block all users from lemmy.ml, regardless of what community or instance they are posting to. No need for an instance admin or defederation or anything - and you can reverse it anytime to boot! That one feature alone is what enticed me to join it, when it was much less developed - that feature is so helpful!
As are the hashtags, categories of communities, keyword filtering, and the list just goes on and on. Ahem, but yes nothing is perfect, and it does have quirks, some of which can be quite annoying. Fortunately the pace of development is extremely quick, and the dev very friendly and responsive.
Sounds like it’s coming along
Heh I’m finding out so much about how inadequate the blocking system on Lemmy is the past couple days. I’m not a conspiracy theorist type of person, but it’s so bad it almost feels… intentional lol