Lemmy, I started with Lemmy and have not seen a reason to move away.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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I'm on Lemmy (db0) because, at the time, I thought PieFed was just another instance, and I chose the instance I liked best without much thought behind what software it ran.
db0 has talked about spinning up a PieFed instance, but I would have to join it and I'd have two accounts. I'm not sure I want to manage two accounts. AFAIK they are not talking about converting to PieFed (if such a thing is possible).
On the tech side, the two mostly federate with one another. I (maybe mistakenly) called out a PieFed user for not posting a link. They thought they did. And they did — it was visible on PieFed, but it was not visible to Lemmy. So they apologised and posted the link in the body of their text, and I apologised for not understanding how things worked. So that is an issue Lemmy (the people who make the software) would have to address, and then db0 would have to update the code on their server (I believe).
So I think as long as they continue to federate to one another, it's fine to just use what you want. If one starts to pull ahead and the other is not catching up, it might be wise to switch, especially if there is a way to pull all your subscriptions, blocks, and managed communities from one to the other.
I have no idea about the ethics of using either.
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I’ve been testing both for some time and the differences are pretty minor. What I really like about PieFed comes down to two things: how it groups cross-posts and their comments (on the web version), and the moderation tools. The downside is that there are a lot fewer mobile apps that support it.
Cross-posting is an amazing feature that’s still massively underused.
I like both. The main thing keeping me from using piefed is it's atrocious image viewer though. I like how Lemmy just spits out the image when you click the thumbnail.
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PieFed all the way. It’s developing at lightning speed, while Lemmy lags behind as the transphobic genocide denying devs beg for donations with in built donation begging banners on all Lemmy instances front pages. Instances are apparently scared to defed from .ml for fear the devs wont support them with help.
Rimu has made some interesting choices, such as blocking 196 from default federating posts until a user subs first or a dislike for meme subs. But when spoken to has been receptive and removed such things or made them optional for admins.
Ethically and feature wise PieFed is in the lead, its not perfect but its open to change and receptive to ideas.
Rimu has made some interesting choices, such as blocking 196 from default federating posts until a user subs first or a dislike for meme subs. But when spoken to has been receptive and removed such things or made them optional for admins.
Huh? You're mixing up a few things here, but 196 was removed from an auto-community look up filter. Currently in any Piefed instance, a local user has to subscribe to an off-instance community in order for new posts to populate though.
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What about Mbin? How is it different?
Mbin went the route of making ensuring microblogs like mastodon were fully compatible, so it can offer both a Reddit-like experience like Lemmy and Piefed do, while also offering the ability to follow mastodon users and hashtags, and display mastodon content in a more micro-bloggy way.
The downside is few mobile apps support it.
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PieFed, which i used first, is harder to navigate. It seems to have blocked a lot of content from other instances and i'm not sure why
Defederation/community blocking is fully adjustable by an instance admin, just like Lemmy.
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