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[–] RareEarth@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hi I’m new. I work in design, I have a degree in multimedia, and the whole concept - sorry to say - seems to be a jumbled up mess.

What’s lemmy? Is this lemmy. What’s piefed then, why are there multiple different communities for each topic ,

It’s not clear.

I don’t mean to insult people, I’m delighted there’s an alternative started, but I think it needs to be overhauled a bit.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

What’s lemmy? Is this lemmy. What’s piefed then, why are there multiple different communities for each topic ,

Lemmy and Piefed are two separately designed open-source Reddit software that anyone can spin up and host. The devs of both Lemmy and Piefed have their own instances, but there are many more.

People host their own Lemmy or Piefed servers and can federate with other servers to see the content on there.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you can help with redesign the interface, that would help a lot!

We were discussing the signup page recently, feel free to comment there: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1735061/should-we-revisit-the-instance-picker-to-have-an-easier-default-choice#post_replies

[–] RareEarth@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Great, thanks for the intro.

I guess I’ll play around a bit for a few days first. Try and get up to speed.

[–] lukkon@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had similar experience. Think about it as emailing someone but on social network. Ppl can use different domains to register (piefed, lemmy, their country servers), but they are meant to communicate with each other.

What however got me is the number of android apps and none of them was pleasant for me. Therefore I stick with web interface and/or log onto phtn.app web page with your account and maybe that ui will suit you best.