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.

  • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      51·
      16 hours ago

      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

      • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        12 hours ago

        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 :

        • 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. :)

          • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            It’s not a straight deal breaker for me, but it’s a pretty big barrier, I just can’t leave Boost lol 😔

          • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            True, i know that users prefers mobile app over web mobile maily due to its navigation.

            Anyway two mobile app are upcoming :

            • pferd (fork of thunder)
            • interstellar (to confirm)

            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…