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Been using Lemmy for a few months, what's different with Piefed? (retrofed.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dragontology@retrofed.com to c/newcomers@piefed.zip

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A lot of people talk up PieFed, and I think I found a community I like (RetroFed, they're based around retro gaming, but they're also new, so I'm not really trying to push them per se) so I signed up with them... so, aside from looking a little different, what's really different here?

Not really looking for a "PieFed vs Lemmy" debate kind of thing, more of a "hey check this out" vibe.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Check out https://join.piefed.social/features

If you're using a mobile app a lot of the differences aren't apparent. Although on Interstellar the duplicate post merging is nice and Blorp has some PieFed-specific things too.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Sometimes I like to wonder what someone who instantly jumped through time from 1980 to now would make of certain sentences we find normal.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm on lemmy using the connect app and it merges posts that have been reposted or duplicated from multiple communities.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oooo, I haven't tried that one until now. Do you know how to switch from 'All' to 'Subscribed'? I can switch from Active to Hot, Top, etc but not away from the All feed.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Subscribed is called Frontpage in Connect app

[–] dragontology@retrofed.com 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Mlem is the app I use on iPhone (and I'm in the beta); I use Voyager on Android, though I'm on my Android phone less.

Duplicate as in cross-post, like say someone posts the same thing to a community of the same name (or even not) on, say, .world, .ml, and a couple others? I've heard about that and that's one reason I joined PieFed.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

Yes, it's one of Piefed's best features

[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mlem dev here. Mlem currently supports two PieFed-exclusive features:

Polls: see !polls@piefed.social for examples.
Adding notes to users: click on the menu in the top right of a user profile and choose “edit note”.

PieFed has many more features that we don’t support yet (see Rimu’s message). We do not yet support crosspost merging.

The most feature-complete experience on mobile would be to use the PieFed website directly. There’s a detailed comparison of different apps’ support for PieFed features here: https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Yes

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, so like I'm on Interstellar right now and if the same post is in multiple communities and I open it up each of their different comment sections will be there.