Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I’m blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.
Whats the catch? Why aren’t we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?
App support is one thing I can think of.
Why aren’t we suggesting Mbin over Lemmy, actually? Because it seems like it has the same options. And Mbin even has an app (not just the PWA function)!
There’s quite a few nice apps for Lemmy. I’m using Connect for Lemmy on android and it’s wonderful.
Oh, I’m aware that both Lemmy and Mastodon have good apps. I’m just pointing out that if the ‘argument’ is that alternatives don’t have an app, MBin does have one.
Mbin has Interstellar, it’s pretty good.
It really is, from my limited use. I use the PWA on my (very old) phone and Firefox on desktop. But I like Interstellar.
Yes, you are right. Mbin is far more advanced than Lemmy. And PieFed more avanced than Lemmy, less then Mbin.
There are lot neat features in Mbin and PieFed so i wish we consider all options before pushing Lemmy everywhere. I also wish more app support from both of them.
I wish we try to remain neutral because, i strongly believe that the 3 softwares can inspire each other.
Totally agree with you that everyone in the fediverse should be working together. Especially the amazing devs.
Interstellar works with PieFed now although the API it uses is only enabled on one instance https://preferred.social as we’re still testing it out.
Is Interstellar support complete? I thought it was still in alpha/beta phase
Definitely alpha, yeah. But moving fast!
Looks like preferred is invite only at this time.
“Invite code (see post on flagship instance)”
Invite code is here: https://piefed.social/post/484755
again, the apps are the killer.
iirc, piefed’s api is very similar to lemmy’s, so apps could support both.