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.