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Global Switch Day is upon us! (piefed.social)

submitted 6 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 86 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Why not Lemmy?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 75 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because of you

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, fair enough.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not you. We like you.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I needed that, thank you.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Feet pics?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah sure alright. Here:

Very NSFW

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fa0a8f36-7641-4628-b918-265112ac2f2d.png

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I... Didn't expect that to work

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wouldn't have done it if you had. I hope you have a very nice day!

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, you did not hold back.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

They seemed nice so why not. Plus, it's funnier this way.

[–] TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

I love this place.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

❤️

[–] rimu@piefed.social 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is !piefed_meta@piefed.social :)

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it’s being federated to Lemmy and most of us just see the Lemmy software as the open Reddit alternative. I’m still not quite sure what Piefed is like, I’ve pretty much never had to look past Lemmy and Mastodon.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 9 points 6 months ago

I recommend giving it a spin if you have the time! It's pretty great :)

[+] fxomt@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

While that is a reasonable motivation, I'd be more worried about potential fracturing of the marketshare, preventing the critical mass to be reached for smaller ones, while keeping the bigger ones from reaching full potential.

The flame dying out for kbin comes to mind. Mastodon probably saw this and decided they need to up their game.

If we're talking about feature, wouldn't it be better to improve on the existing?

I'm definitely not an expert on this, but I find it concerning the massive closed players keep getting all the pies while preying on the players on the verse, waiting to see some weakness to prey on.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The flame dying out for kbin comes to mind.

That wasn't because of adoption, that was because the main dev ran into health issues. Or at least I was under the impression of that.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Assuming what you said is true, this would highlight the fact that kbin was pretty much entirely ran by a single person. Otherwise, someone else would readily take over.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think there are a lot of projects that have many contributors but only one person that has admin access to the repo, website, etc. I wouldn't necessarily say it meant there was a single person working on it.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Let's not pretend that these projects are exempt from the real life obstacles. People have real life out there. They get sick, have family issues, change ideologies, you name it. Sometimes the sole maintainer goes missing out of the blue.

Yet some of these projects persevere despite challenges. Solus is a good example.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Mbin exists as a continuation of kbin. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

[+] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Keeping the verse alive one way or another goes with the spirit of fediverse. The case with .world does highlight the pitfalls of having an instance so big, but it highlight its success. The pitfalls can also be mitigated by having many other instances, big and small (e.g. sh.itjust.works, blahaj, db0, sopuli, lemm.ee, all the feddit instances) that although they have different names, they share the same banner of Lemmy. This is highly successful with Mastodon.

Speaking of the same banner, wouldn't it be great to have many different link aggregators like lemmy, mbin, piefed, and maybe others to share the same class identity or so instead of what they currently are? This way, they all won't be treated like competing standards despite being on their own code base and feature set. Maybe with this, forks of the original Lemmy code can be created to address the stuborness of the devs.

Yes, I am aware ActivityPub is supposed to achieve just this, but it also does a lot of things that are not relevant and even confusing to the specific use case (e.g. link aggregator). Also, newcomers would just get frustrated with all this tech stuff and ran off to the warm embrace of big tech.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Potential fracturing of the marketshare

I find it hard to imagine that'll be too much of an issue considering I'm seeing piefed and Mastodon comments in my Lemmy app right now. I don't care if someone is on a different site than I am as long as the content we make for each other gets seen by each other

[–] derekabutton@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I've honestly been thinking of a switch. Have you heard of any good experiences with those?

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 9 points 6 months ago

I have been using both Mbin (Kbin before it) and Piefed quite a bit, and both are very good.

If you want microblogging capabilities and prefer the UI, Mbin is the way to go. If you want the most robust Reddit-like experience with a bunch of quality of life improvements over Lemmy but only one UI and no apps as of now, PieFed is gold.

I think PieFed is my favourite for the time being, as I like the UI and don't care about apps.

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

As a MBin user, I think it depends on what you're looking for:

If you want to be able to follow and interact with Mastodon users, and microblogging side of the Fediverse in general I recommend Mbin
If you only care about groups (communities) and interacting with them I recommend Piefed

[–] NaibofTabr 13 points 6 months ago

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago

That was about a year and a half ago ;p

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Literally never heard about this event before today.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Piefed needs a cute mascot

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm not wed to the logo, by any means

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you wed to the name?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago

Not really, no.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

To be fair it depends what kind of pie it is.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Does it federate with Lemmy?

Edit: Ok that post comes from piefed itself. I have answered my own question.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Absolutely! This thread is posted by a PieFed user (and developer) in a PieFed community, and I'm responding to you from PieFed right now. :)