• Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
    621·
    10 hours ago

    I like the many features of Piefed, but the lack of mobile apps and good clients (such as tesseract) is a deal breaker for me. And the Lemmy backend is written in rust, so it’s very fast, as opposed to python, though I understand why one would use python instead of rust.

    I hope Lemmy catches up with the features. I’m not fully comfortable with donating to the devs because they run tankie authoritarian-bootlicking instances, and are transphobic.

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      7 hours ago

      they run tankie authoritarian-bootlicking instances, and are transphobic.

      This is why I’m most likely going to use Piefed when my lemm.ee time expires

    • MangoPenguin@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      The Interstellar app seems pretty good so far

      So far piefed seems a lot more responsive, but that could just be due to less users on this instance vs the lemmy one I use.

    • Linda@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
      271·
      11 hours ago

      Blåhaj just made a piefed instance and I just think it’s better

      It’s compatible with lemmy, so I can just use my piefed account for basically everything!

        • Linda@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
          452·
          10 hours ago
          • Communities can have a topic, this means you can browse by topic! Nice but not mindblowing
          • Communities can define post flairs! Basically very visible tags on posts that you can sort by. I’ve wanted this for a long time and some communities do this on lemmy by adding [flair/tag] to the title. Easy to forget to do. With it being a feature instead it’s just much nicer and handier
          • Wikis! Some communities really benefit from having a wiki alongside it, like my DIY HRT community! I’m super pumped for this one
          • There’s a NSFL flag for posts in addition to NSFW
          • Lots of neat options for communities and the user. You can set communities to be mosaic instead of a list! Haven’t tried it yet but it’s cool that it’s an option
          • Built in custom css stuff
          • The dev seems very active and communicative
          • The dev isn’t a transphobic tankie as far as I’m aware
          • Everything seems to be better made than here. Did you know on lemmy you need to comment/post in a community to be made a mod? You also can’t be unmodded unless you have a comment or post. On piefed there’s a menu for this instead. Lots of just better little things like that
          • More probably

          The downside is Lemmy is more popular. I don’t think there is a mobile app also (edit: there are mobile apps like Interstellar, but I dunno if they support all the non-lemmy features yet), just the web frontend. There might be more, but I just started using it. Also, since the instance is new it’s still syncing posts and such from other instances and from lemmy

          Edit:
          Oh! And you can have “feeds” which are like multireddits. Instead of just your frontpage which acts as a singular feed you can have multiple custom feeds! Say a meme and a hobby feed f.ex, instead of everything being mixed

          Edit:
          One more negative is lemmy can’t see the piefed only features like wikis. It’s also newer and there seems to be mainly one contributor to the code, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some bugs lurking around.

          • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            20·
            10 hours ago

            According to Ada, you can also set up instance moderators that don’t have the full “keys to the castle”. I think that’s a big part of why they set it up to check out, I was chatting to her about how Blahaj kinda needed more moderation at an instance level.

          • Baking Lucy (she/them)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            6·
            8 hours ago

            Some additional features:

            You can follow other users. Also you can get notifications from a post, a user, or a community, without subscribing to them.

            “Feeds” can also be made public and shared with others. Here’s my feed for local Lemmy Blahaj communities: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/f/blahajlocal, as an example.

            Keyword filters are a built-in feature. I’m not sure yet but if it’s bound to your account and not the client then your filters will be synced between different devices. Even if it’s not true it’s still better implemented than in most Lemmy clients.

            Some more transparency on votes (e.g. users have “attitude” stat which is a percentage of posts/comments they upvoted against the stuff they downvoted).

            User flairs are also available! You can specify some info for a specific community without changing your display name.

            Searching is nicer than on Lemmy. You can go to a community and search there too.

            Just the stuff I noticed from my first look btw, there’s probably more!

          • erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
            8·
            9 hours ago

            interesting, I have been able to mod and unmod people who have never posted in my comms using the photon frontend.

          • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 hours ago

            Hmm… all that sounds good (except for lacking the requirement of posting in said instance to become a mod there - but if what you say is true, it might be an option).

            But is it still decentralised and federated?