Ask Lemmy

I'm new as of today. I joined piefed.zip. I think I'll do alright here. I'm already on Mastodon.

I have no idea. I'm a vanilla, semi-norm who came from Reddit, mainly because they banned me after 15 years of active and mostly chill engagement.

I'm basically just a slightly opinionated guy who's interested in what other people have to say on a variety of subjects.

I'm only dimly aware of PieFeed. I like lemmy as it feels like early Reddit and I access it through the boost app on Android, which was the peak Reddit experience before they locked down the APIs.

I've no interest in spreading myself over multiple platforms - I just want access to other humans via the path of least resistance.

With this in mind, is PieFace better? And if so, in what way?

Why vs when we can just interop?

We are not like traditional websites. When one community does well, we can all do well.

Piefed users comment and post to lemmy and via versa.

I see a lot of piefed posts on Lemmy - are we not federated across so that we're getting the milk without needing to buy the cow?

Piefed and Lemmy are act-pub/fediverse software systems, same with Mastodon and many others. Since Lemmy and Piefed are so similar in their structure though as link aggregators that people vote and comment on you could think of them as the same network with different clients.

I switched from Lemmy to Piefed somewhere around piefed's 1.15 version as I recall. On a technical front Piefed is a solid margin ahead in admin and usability features, at least as of when I switched. I haven't noticed a major performance difference, but mine is a single user instance so that might be better shown at a larger scale. Lemmy was a bit easier to deploy initially since there wasn't a need to have anything compile locally but rather just pull an image and go.

Ethically, I'm less concerned using Piefed than Lemmy. The devs of Lemmy are notoriously vocal in their support of Russia/China/Korea, and basically anything that could be considered in opposition of western liberal/progressive policies. This is troublesome since there is the potential for updates being made that help create even more aggressively divisive bubbles than we already have in many parts of the fedi. Those could be applied to any software of course, but the Lemmy devs make their stances quite visible in that regard.

I thought PieFed and Lemmy were one and the same.

I am not savvy on how this place is structured.

Piefed has some critical features like, non-nsfw blur, flairs, ability to disable notifications from relies on posts and more information is exposed to admins.

Piefed Game Changer number 1: Custom feeds, ex:

• https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

that way I can look at non-tech non-politics stuff (either few memes or all memes) when I want.

Piefed Game Changer number 2: Scheduled posts. That way when I got free time I can make a bunch of posts and schedule them over the next couple days or weeks.

I still keep a Lemmy account bc a couple things are still easier there. Plus to see what the posts look like to other people.