I’ve seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,

  1. What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I’m more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).

  2. Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?

  3. Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?

  4. What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, “the website is the app” is not how I like to do it

  5. Any other questions you think I should be asking?

  • simple@piefed.socialEnglish
    221·
    25 days ago

    What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy?

    It has more features, such as flairs, a way to move communities somewhere else, the ability to see comments from all crossposts, multi-communities, and it has a much faster development pace. The UX still needs some work, but that can be improved over time.

    From a technical perspective it’s made with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it’s easier to host too.

    Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?

    Yes and yes.

    Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?

    You can export your Lemmy account settings and import them to Piefed, but not the other way around.

    What android app options are available for PieFed?

    https://interstellar.jwr.one/

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      13·
      25 days ago

      with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it’s easier to host too.

      I can’t imagine it’s much easier than Lemmy. As far as self hosting goes Lemmy is pretty standard. And with PieFed being python it’s bound to be less efficient at the same scale.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      25 days ago

      You can export your Lemmy account settings and import them to Piefed, but not the other way around

      Does account settings include a user’s subscribed communities?

    • thrawn@lemmy.world
      1·
      24 days ago

      Hello, hope you do not mind additional questions.

      If I block an instance on PieFed, do their votes count?

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    25 days ago

    It’s much better at federation than Lemmy.

    But the coolest thing is that it does not need to be a competition. Both platforms can do good in the federation.

    But if you want to give it a try Piefed.social

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      25 days ago

      But the coolest thing is that it does not need to be a competition. Both platforms can do good in the federation.

      100% agreed, I’d even go further and say that having a diversity of systems makes for a more resilient ActivityPub ecosystem. It’s not only non-competitive, it’s inherently cooperative.

      The fact that PieFed and Lemmy work interchangeably with each other is wonderful, and that plus the fact that I’m lazy means I’m probably going to keep primarily going through lemmy.world for now, but I’m definitely going to keep thinking about it and checking up on it.

  • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    24 days ago
    1. It is more opinionated than Lemmy. Comments with -10 score are automatically collapsed, users with low karma have icon next to their name, 4Chan screenshots are automatically reported.