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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i use both and don't give a shit. 🤷

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago (8 children)

They each are good in different ways. Lemmy's search is superb - far better than Reddit's or especially PieFed's. Though PieFed has solved the community discovery and onboarding issues for new users.

Imho PieFed seems unquestionably better for a new user, whereas Lemmy is typically more suited for an established user of the Threadiverse, unless they want one of the new features that only PieFed offers (i.e., most people don't need to move, especially if they use a mobile app).

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I've said that Piefed needs to rip out its search UI and just copy Lemmy's really. It's more convenient. Rimu has said he's not happy with it if I recall.

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[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 months ago (13 children)

See this comment with PieFed code analysis for context: https://lemmy.ml/post/42415919/23662293

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And on top of that looks like the guy who posted this meme: https://lemmy.ml/post/42415919

Got his account deleted on PieFed: https://lemmy.ml/post/42415919/23687401

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Big cringe, not even hexbear admins do that.

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 40 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've never noticed it that extreme - perhaps I've just blocked the right people - but I always saw it more like this:

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago

It's fairly recent, mostly from people doing a code audit, and possibly emboldened by the upcoming Lemmy 1.0. See e.g. https://lemmy.ml/post/42339089/23619001.

Personally I believe such criticisms will only strengthen the code by polishing some of its roughest spots, increasing transparency by exposing additional configuration options and the like. The PieFed devs are actively soliciting such genuine feedback - see e.g. https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1660885/we-re-here-to-answer-any-questions-you-have-about-piefed-s-code.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

piefed exists becase the lemmy creators are leftist.

your standard anticommunism, nothing different than the norm really.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago

I can't say I know too much about piefed, however I did notice that a lot of the worst users I knew from Lemmy moved to piefed so that was enough for me.

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[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got on lemmy because I just wanted to ditch reddit. I can't be bothered to set this convoluted shit up again.

[–] dimjim@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Thats pretty much where I am lol. I have an account and I can see both lemmy and piefed content, good enough for me!

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like the threadiverse :)

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The majority of us probably do.

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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. They're both very good. And there's no need to bring one down to uplift the other.

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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago

What's not cool? Infighting, it drives away new users.

That's an ironic comment, given how loaded the image you've included is...

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Feud ppst8ng is cringe. Everyone can pick a instance thats best for them. Who cares if its not for you.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Users of either means content for both so doing team sports over this seems foolish.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Me, who didn't even recognise the icon on the left:

Why is this blue clock guy so mean?

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s concern-trolling and astroturfing. There are lots of proprietary platforms that must feel threatened by the Fediverse so it’s no surprise that the classic divide and conquer strats are making an appearance.

Just use whatever platform you want and don’t feed the trolls.

PS: memes like this just serve to perpetuate and exacerbate the flamewars, so bravo if that’s what you were aiming for.

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[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago

The Lemmy devs have arguably pretty worse philosophy but dev with a sense of integrity and don't inject their politics into their software.

The Piefed devs have arguably much better philosophy but do directly build that into their app development.

I'm sorry, I don't think that's an improvement.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

I’ve seen too many conversations go like this:

PieFan: “Piefed is better.”

“How is it better?”

PieFan: “It’s growing much faster than Lemmy.”

“So it’s bigger than Lemmy?”

PieFan: “No, but it will be soon.”

“So Lemmy has more people.”

PieFan: “Piefed has better features and looks better.”

“What are the better features?”

PieFan: “They’ll be integrated soon.”

“How does it look better?”

PieFan: “Well, if you’re using an app it looks the same. And if you’re using the desktop website it looks the same.”

“So it’s better on mobile?”

PieFan: “it will be soon.”

“So if Piefed is roughly the same as Lemmy and is federated with Lemmy, I can just stay on Lemmy and keep my posts, comments, and history while still accessing everything on Piefed.”

PieFan: “I hate Lemmy admins!”

I respect your personal opinions, and even agree with some of the grievances you may have, but for people who are already established on a Lemmy instance there is no practical reason to leave it for Piefed. It’s a preference, same as choosing a Lemmy instance.

Edit: People are already taking this personally. I have no skin in this game, but I see these exchanges all the time and it’s frustrating to watch in-fighting between platforms that are connected to each other by design in the first place.

[–] irelephant@anarchist.nexus 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Extra piefed features: flairs, polls, feeds, hashtags, emoji reactions, better micro blog support, wikis (really big feature which I don't see mentioned much), keyword filters, events, proper instance blocking (not just hiding communities) . Some apps don't support all of these yet.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago

Just one detail: Piefed already reads Lemmy instances, so it being less-used doesn't matter.

And Piefed already has a ton of tools that Lemmy doesn't have, so no-one is replying "they'll be integrated soon" yet. They already exist.

Note: not saying this to convince you of anything. Just noting some details.

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