• Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
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    1 year 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.

    • Jorunn (she/her)@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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      1 year 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!

        • Jorunn (she/her)@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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          1 year 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.