I've been comparing PieFed to lemmy and it's not even a close call. Accessing lemmy with an app like Thunder or Voyager is far more comfortable and efficient. Insurance choice is great, discovery is easy and the overall experience feels very polished.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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Thunder is being forked to support Piefed, that might change the situation
- Do you want microblogging alongside regular forums?
- YES: Choose mbin.
- NO:
- Do you want a native app?
- YES: Choose Lemmy... for now.
- NO: Choose PieFed.
- Do you want a native app?
I've been very interested in PieFed and kept a close watch on it; the only reason I'm on Lemmy is the lack of a stable API on PieFed (which means no apps). Here are some of the reasons I believe PieFed is superior than Lemmy:
- More lightweight to host; imo makes it "more decentralized" since the requirements to self-host are less and thus available to more people.
- New and innovative features
- Responsive developer
- PieFed is opinionated to foster a positive environment. The platform itself is designed in some places to be unattractive to tankies, nazis, trolls, transphobics, etc.
- I don't believe in seperation of the art from the artist. The artist somehow always profits from the art, be it donations, paywalls, etc. The developers of Lemmy are tankies, and one of them is a transphobe.
Lemmy has the most smartphone apps.
Lemmy even has great web apps (not including the vanilla site).
- https://phtn.app/ (great desktop ui)
- https://alexandrite.app/ (vanilla-like, flyout posts)
- https://vger.app/ (mobile focused)
It's just missing secure OAuth based logins.
Right now I'd choose Lemmy. Summit on mobile and photon on desktop.
Piefed is a close second, but still has a ways to go. Honestly, I could see it surpassing Lemmy soon.
I haven't driven Mbin too much, but it's pretty neat conceptually. I wouldn't count it out if you want to be able to microblog from the same platform. Kind of novel, but I found the experience to be disconjointed overall.
Mbin/Kbin is pretty nice, though it lacks mobile apps. I would switch to it if it had a few mobile apps, but we only have interstellar, which is pretty much alpha.
@asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
(Interstellar dev here) Not sure what you mean by alpha. Sure, Interstellar could always use improvements, but that's the same as with any app. I, and I'm assuming many other people, daily use Interstellar, and mainly without any issue.
If you have any specific feedback you'd like to provide, I am very welcome to it. Many times that people have mentioned a bug/issue, I've tried to incorporate a change that would fix said issue within an update or so (several were even incorporated in the update that was just released).
I will admit, we need more developers working on Interstellar, but someone making a whole new Mbin app would do completely the opposite of what Interstellar needs (it would mean fewer potential developers working on Interstellar).
I've worked hard on this app for over a year at this point, and I would have considered it alpha at the beginning, but at this point, it is definitely ready for general use and not "alpha". As the solo "active" contributor (I appreciate all the not as active contributors as well), I just can't work on everything all at once.
While I don't use mbin/kbin, thank you for your work. More software means more decentralization, which is healthy. The fediverse is a better place with you in it :)
Thank you for your work
Thank you for your support ❤
I think summit is considering support
Why not just try all of them out and see which one you like the most? I personally like Mbin the most, but you may like another one. I don't think anything is stopping you from creating test accounts (And you don't need extensive time, I imagine it would take a few hours at most)