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
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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
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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.
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.
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!
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).
What makes it better/worse? Up- and downsides?
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.
NSFL flag may have just sold me. i’m so tired of staring down a vague title and trying to calculate the odds of tits vs gore
that honestly sounds really interesting I migth just move my very active and totally not dead community there in the near future.
Haha! :P
There’s a migrate community button actually, so you can clone over everything if you want
yeah I noticed. I think I migth start posting some more so the community grows more once I have more time
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.
Ah yes! That’s correct. I’m an admin over there and can therefore moderate here as well
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!
interesting, I have been able to mod and unmod people who have never posted in my comms using the photon frontend.
Ah, might be a frontend thing then. The default web frontend for blahaj can’t do that at least.
interstellar doesn’t work with blahaj piefed as the api is closed
Oops! We’ll get that fixed as soon as we can!
Ooo, I’ll have to check it out!
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?
Yeah! It’s part of the fediverse! Check what instance I am talking to you from :3
Oh huh, just noticed that yeah! Is there an app for it? I see Interstellar mentioned, but is it for iOS or Android, or some third one? Is it on /e/OS?
According to this it’s
https://interstellar.jwr.one/
I found it on android. I am using the web frontend on desktop personally
Okay, and just to ask one more question: is your account affilated with piefed in any way (other than having an account there)?
Nope! I just think it’s neat. I tried out piefed only because there’s a blåhaj instance. I’m WillStealYourUsername, a longtime mod of this comm
I can confirm that I am me!
Is there an app?
Interstellar is the app for piefed