It's newer and new features materialize faster. Also the dev(s) are not tankies. But they also added an (optional) feature where upvotes are limited due to excessive influence of most active users? IMO this space is still too small for that to natter. If I want to spread positivity and reinforcement on contributors why should I be capped?

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Piefed and Lemmy both intermix and talk to each other. What matters more is on the backend for mods and hosting communities. The big draw is Piefed has more features that help make moderation easier.

One thing on the user side that I like is how comments are handled. Since crossposting is common, Piefed allows you to see all comments from all crossposts as one thread so you don’t have to hop to the other post to see what’s being said. This is helpful if an article for example is posted to news communities on different instances.

The interaction limitation tho, I think that’s a bad call, even if it’s got an option to disable.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The interaction limitation tho, I think that’s a bad call, even if it’s got an option to disable.

Eh, I think it's fine, even a good idea in theory, as long as the limits are generous. It can slow down and limit certain forms of malicious behavior like spamming and bot-based vote manipulation. But the limits need to be set high enough that real, good-faith users basically never run into them.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I will say that’s one thing PieFed does really well, cutting down on bots and spam. I considered switching to it for a minute, but didn’t.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 points 4 weeks ago

Voyager is a Lemmy/PieFed frontend. Kind of like how if you have a Gmail account, you can check your email using the official Gmail app or with any alternative email app like Thunderbird, K-Mail, Fairmail, the iOS Mail app, etc. if you want. Those apps are all just front ends for accessing your email account. Similarly, you can access Lemmy/PieFed via frontend apps like Voyager, Thunder, Blorp, etc.

Note that while many apps support both Lemmy/PieFed, some apps only support one or the other. For example, Jerboa is just a Lemmy app and does not support PieFed in any way.