Been using Piefed on the Interstellar app, its pretty nice. As other have said, the collecting of seemingly duplicate posts into one is great. Overall it doesn't feel much different on an average use case.
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But I also have a lemmy.today. Because I was on Lemm.ee, but that died, sadly.
And a Lemmy.zip, as I was on Kbin, back in the day, but that also went down. So I diversified my Fedifolio. I also use the Boost app, and Voyager, just in case any of those apps go down.
https://join.piefed.social/features/
Differences between Lemmy and PieFed
- Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
- Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
- Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
- People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
- Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
- Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
- Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
- Voting is private.
- See also features for healthy communities.
- Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo
I don't like the fact that users receive a banner next to their name if they get downvoted a lot. This makes other people judge negatively the comment even before reading it. I think it also encourages people to keep downvoting and discourages to upvote (as what happens with mass down votes of a comment on Reddit just for the sake of doing so).
Edit: sorry for my English, it's not my native language + I just woke up
This only effects about 3.5% of accounts.
- Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
Is this self-designated?
I have no idea! I'm already hosting Lemmy so I don't really see the point personally.
Just thought I'd look it up for OP.
No, admins designate it.
Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.
In the code there is a function that recognizes if the name of the community contains "meme" and if so does not add the upvote to the vote counter of the user
I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It's off by default.
Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.
Well since I have a chance to be seen from the developer of Piefed: thank you for your work. The more options we have, the better.
Cheers :)
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Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.
I don't particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it's better for it, all things considered.
The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)
Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
I'm very interested in this. I'm kinda stunned that lemmy doesn't do this natively.
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How exactly does the private vote thing work? I thought votes being federated was inherent to the way the fediverse is designed.
Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.
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People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
I think any kind of reputation score should be community specific. There are users whose commenting style fits one community but not another, and their overall reputation should be understood in the context of which communities actually like them rather than some kind of global average.
Time for another fork... sigh...
We now have thirteen competing standards!
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I'm not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of https://piefed.social/ without what looks like creating an account and logging in. Is account creation and login required to interact with piefed at all? No anonymous reading?
This is a temporary measure to reduce load on the server from AI scrapers.
Same here, so I'd assume so.
Gotcha. That's a non-starter for me then. I hope I'm not the intended audience for piefed. I never visit Facebook pages for the same reason.
I could be entirely wrong, but that's what it looks like, yeah.
Absolutely hate registration walls as well.
"I just want to see what's there"
"Make an account first."
"Is it worth making an account?"
"Make an account and find out" "Oh you must provide a valid email to verify" "Surprise fucker its spam forever"
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!lego@piefed.social is an example of Piefed commmunity
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Others have covered most.
For me the one killer feature is grouping of duplicate articles over multiple instances into one post, with comments from all instances listed therein.
This takes away the ghost town feeling of Lemmy, and the frustration of seeing the same post multiple times while scrolling.
The one bad thing is we can't upload images to posts or comments, so it's several steps forward, one step backwards.
Edit: you can post images if you're using Summit on Android, just can't seem to do it via the PWA / Web version.
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You'll get a negative social credit score if you join PieFed and ditch lemmy
It is similar to Lemmy in that it's also a link aggregation platform. What makes it different is that it is created by different people using different code and has different priorities. But the same basic features are present.
I can't speak to why it might be better than Lemmy because I don't use it. Maybe some people think it's better because of the features it offers. Maybe others don't like the Lemmy devs and prefer supporting a different application. There are lots of possible reasons.
Its a place where you get free pies and you have to eat them, or else you get forcefed
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To some degree they are just web frontends to the backend technology. kbin was done by this guy earnest which had a feel I just liked better but something happened with him and the fork mbin is the only real option now which is fine but earnest seemed to have a vision that did not come to complete fruition, I did not use lemmy much but when I compared the two I went with kbin. Was on mbin when kbin blew up but piefed came along and eventually I tried it. Its main thing is it has these topics where it nests communities. So I can browse the topic comics which has a bunch of communities where people post comics in it. Its handy. I really like some of the nice options like I can block on keywords and allow nsfw to show (I swear some people tag pictures with it because its showing to much ankle. ok that was an exaggeration but man peoples ideas of what is not safe I think is a super broad spectrum and im not really concerned about nsfw) in your feed without blurring and another than will sorta darken bot submissions a bit so you can tell when scrolling. Now all this is because its been super active with development so it can bit a bit wonky. when scrolling I see this thing where text overlaps and messes things up but ultimately its a minor nuissance and I can scroll up or down to get what I want and the other things are so useful plus I can see more is to come so seems to be the most likely to keep on getting better. Anyway that is why I cam where I currently am. Its gotten a spike in popularity too which caused it to be sorta offline for a bit a week or so back but it was pretty short and they got things going. I can tell you anyone used to earnest with kbin will think nothing of that (kbin was legendary with its downtime). So if you want more stability go with lemmy/mbin but if you want more features go with piefed. Keep in mind stability is mostly about instances so a particular lemmy or mbin could be more or less stable. Anyway I like features.
I’d be inclined to check it out but it looks like they don’t have a mobile app I can use. Lemmy at least has a few different feature robust apps you can use to access Lemmy. I might check it out when I’m on desktop, but that would be a fraction of the amount of time I spend online.
Voyager works with PieFed now
What???
Wow, I’m surprised that’s not the top Google result or App Store result for PieFed.
I wrote my comment on the Voyager app too lmao.
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