cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884

There’s so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.

I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?

For me, it’s mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.

  • gon [he]@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Other than Lemmy/piefed, I self host everything on a very small server. It’s fun if you like that kinda thing.

    That’s totally awesome :D So GoToSocial, Pixelfed, and Peertube? Awesome!!! :D

    Piefed /Lemmy for keeping up with topics.

    Which one do you prefer, actually? Piefed, or Lemmy? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each? I’m really interested in all the threadiverse services.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That’s a very good question. I don’t have a good answer ATM. I have both because I’m on the fence.

      Lemmy and piefed both scratch the topic discovery itch. Both are excellent software.

      Piefed pros:

      1. Topics (collection of communities) are awesome to subscribe to.
      2. One of the best fediverse integrations out there.
      3. The python is easy to read.
      4. Mod tools are great.
      5. The main dev is a treasure

      Lemmy pros:

      1. Very reddit like UI.
      2. Lots of apps phone or otherwise.
      3. Very well supported by admins of the bigger instances

      Lemmy has an easier way to post than piefed. The selection of communities is a bit better. Piefed is much easier to stand up on home servers (I did it once). It’s also seeing a large amount of dev work right now. And as I’ve said before it has much better fediverse integration than Lemmy. Lemmy has this issue where it’s hard to federate with other services, even when you search using the search tool.

      • gon [he]@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        You know, you make it sound like Piefed is pretty strictly better! If the pros for Lemmy boil down to a larger user-base…

        Well, I’ll definitely be checking it out! Thanks for the reply :D

        Edit: Hilarious first impression.

        First impression Piefed