Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.
Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.
Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have
cross-posts comments consolidation: example: piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1011777… . Community fragmentation is a regular criticism of the Threadiverse, and this solves it.
multi-communities, so that smaller communities are not drown in the most active ones in the Subscribed feed, allowing once again to avoid the "all there is is US news"
Lemmy 1.0 is planned to add some of those features, but still doesn't have a defined release date yet: lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
Due to all of this, Piefed is currently considered a better platform for new joiners than Lemmy. This can change once Lemmy 1.0 is released, but that's how it is right now.
Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn't ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
A recent comment showed the disconnection between a Threadiverse enthusiast and a potential new joiner: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
But even beyond that, as we all know, people don't have to understand federation to use the platform: lemmy.world/post/35166124
That's why a few people have been pointing only to Piefed recently.
(Why should we even try to get people from Reddit to here? More people allows niche communities to become active rather than relying on one single poster, if any. That's an issue we usually see on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip )
There have been a few posts recently on Reddit promoting Piefed:
The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.
A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That's not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.
To hide the reputation system, here's a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user
Many Lemmy apps actually added Piefed compatibility fairly quickly once it was catching on. Boost, Summit, Blorp, Voyager, Interstellar and Mlem all support Piefed.
Do any of these have the gesture of swipe up/sideways to go back/close picture from full view? I'd like to move away from Eternity, but I use this constantly. The ones implementing gestures or swipes seem to be focused on upvoting actions and so on, but not to go back.
I'm not well versed in all of them. Summit has press-and-hold to maximise a picture from thumbnail and then swipe up to dismiss, which works well enough for me. Also basic swipe to go back and three tier swipe gesture actions on posts/comments (swipe, longer swipe, longest swipe).
I think Mlem does, although I usually swipe down to close an image from view so I’m not sure about up. I definitely swipe sideways to go back, but it’s been a bit hit-or-miss since the new iPadOS uses this in the corners to shrink an application for some reason I can’t fathom.
There's one point you haven't mentioned that, to me, is the most important one and is honestly, I think, the core issue most people are talking around: Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.
If some libs want to go off and make their own little safe-space reddit clone because seeing a post sympathetic to China makes them angry, sure, go ahead I guess. But I'm a Socialist, and all serious Socialists - or Liberals who believe in the merits of free discussion and debate, of which there are vanishingly few these days - are going to be opposed to that sort of thing.
I moved to Lemmy because /r/CTH was banned and /r/GenZedong getting quarantined was the final straw. It is clear to me that the goal of the administration of the major PieFed instances is to recreate the same Anticommunist culture of Reddit within the fediverse.
If the developers of PieFed want me to like their app (or at least be neutral to it), literally all they have to do is refederate with Lemmygrad and enf
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There's one point you haven't mentioned that, to me, is the most important one and is honestly, I think, the core issue most people are talking around: Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.
If some libs want to go off and make their own little safe-space reddit clone because seeing a post sympathetic to China makes them angry, sure, go ahead I guess. But I'm a Socialist, and all serious Socialists - or Liberals who believe in the merits of free discussion and debate, of which there are vanishingly few these days - are going to be opposed to that sort of thing.
I moved to Lemmy because /r/CTH was banned and /r/GenZedong getting quarantined was the final straw. It is clear to me that the goal of the administration of the major PieFed instances is to recreate the same Anticommunist culture of Reddit within the fediverse.
If the developers of PieFed want me to like their app (or at least be neutral to it), literally all they have to do is refederate with Lemmygrad and enforce moderation policies that do not infringe on legal left-wing speech. If they choose not to, it's they who are putting their politics ahead of their development goals, much in the same way (if this isn't too melodramatic) Imperialist states suddenly stop caring about free markets and the international rules-based order when it comes to the Cuban embargo, Iranian and Russian influence, or Chinese loans.
“Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.”
It has less to do with your politics and more to do with pretty much everyone collectively deciding they don’t want to deal with your toxic instance culture. You guys create such a massive moderation overhead in instances where you engage that it isn’t worth having you around.
Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn’t ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
This! But it does draw into question Piefed's decision to an instance chooser into the registration page.
I going to stop engaging with this stuff now. I'm just so sick of this inane inter-software fighting. Piefed does some nice things, Lemmy does some nice things, both have questionable aspects. That's just software, baby!
The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.
I feel the same. I'm going to be a bit self-centered and quote myself from the piefed matrix chat:
I like lemmy. I still use, run communities on, and donate to lemmy instances.
Different threadiverse implementations just means different features available to people looking for them, and a bigger, more diverse threadiverse is a better one.
…yeah this is absurd. We’re all reading the same content. Who cares how we read it? They’re both pretty great as far as I can tell as an ignorant end user.
Even though I'm on lemmy, I was very interested in Piefed and even upvoted this post thinking it's very cool, but then through this post I've read this comment and this is lame af lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62580326…
I kept reading and found someone else pointing a lot of those filters are off by default (like decreasing reputation if you reply with a gif, what was even the idea here lol). I'm also not a native speaker, and if I'm talking about a serious subject and write a long text I usually use a chatbot to grammar check me and sometimes that crap changes my hyphens for em dashes and I don't notice - at least it seems like you only get flagged for posting an em dash instead of losing score. I'm still not sure what to think about the reputation score though... Lastly, even though I have blocked hexbear and lemmygrad, I find it lame that'd they'd ban it by default :P
Well most instances do block them even on the lemmyverse. Dbzer0 obviously doesn't. But the default defederation includes a lot more instances than them in the first place. They're just the most notable.
That's quite surprising given by how touchy they are about everything (that ml user comment even says "stupid" is ableism), I thought they would be welcomed all around the fediverse.
But my favorite has to win! There's no way the devs would/should be able to learn from each other, and they smell for making a competing product. Monopolies are awesome. /s
psychOdelic she/her
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Coelacanth
in reply to psychOdelic she/her • • •iturnedintoanewt
in reply to Coelacanth • • •Coelacanth
in reply to iturnedintoanewt • • •aGlassDarkly
in reply to iturnedintoanewt • • •aeronmelon
in reply to psychOdelic she/her • • •Overspark
in reply to psychOdelic she/her • • •Skavau
in reply to psychOdelic she/her • • •bdonvr
in reply to psychOdelic she/her • • •Drewfro66
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •There's one point you haven't mentioned that, to me, is the most important one and is honestly, I think, the core issue most people are talking around: Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.
If some libs want to go off and make their own little safe-space reddit clone because seeing a post sympathetic to China makes them angry, sure, go ahead I guess. But I'm a Socialist, and all serious Socialists - or Liberals who believe in the merits of free discussion and debate, of which there are vanishingly few these days - are going to be opposed to that sort of thing.
I moved to Lemmy because /r/CTH was banned and /r/GenZedong getting quarantined was the final straw. It is clear to me that the goal of the administration of the major PieFed instances is to recreate the same Anticommunist culture of Reddit within the fediverse.
If the developers of PieFed want me to like their app (or at least be neutral to it), literally all they have to do is refederate with Lemmygrad and enf
... show moreThere's one point you haven't mentioned that, to me, is the most important one and is honestly, I think, the core issue most people are talking around: Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.
If some libs want to go off and make their own little safe-space reddit clone because seeing a post sympathetic to China makes them angry, sure, go ahead I guess. But I'm a Socialist, and all serious Socialists - or Liberals who believe in the merits of free discussion and debate, of which there are vanishingly few these days - are going to be opposed to that sort of thing.
I moved to Lemmy because /r/CTH was banned and /r/GenZedong getting quarantined was the final straw. It is clear to me that the goal of the administration of the major PieFed instances is to recreate the same Anticommunist culture of Reddit within the fediverse.
If the developers of PieFed want me to like their app (or at least be neutral to it), literally all they have to do is refederate with Lemmygrad and enforce moderation policies that do not infringe on legal left-wing speech. If they choose not to, it's they who are putting their politics ahead of their development goals, much in the same way (if this isn't too melodramatic) Imperialist states suddenly stop caring about free markets and the international rules-based order when it comes to the Cuban embargo, Iranian and Russian influence, or Chinese loans.
NoPanko
in reply to Drewfro66 • • •ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
in reply to NoPanko • • •https://lemmynsfw.com/u/WallsToTheBalls
in reply to Drewfro66 • • •It has less to do with your politics and more to do with pretty much everyone collectively deciding they don’t want to deal with your toxic instance culture. You guys create such a massive moderation overhead in instances where you engage that it isn’t worth having you around.
flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •This! But it does draw into question Piefed's decision to an instance chooser into the registration page.
I going to stop engaging with this stuff now. I'm just so sick of this inane inter-software fighting. Piefed does some nice things, Lemmy does some nice things, both have questionable aspects. That's just software, baby!
Instead you should do something fun, like listen to this dope album out of Czechia.
Choice Overload | Laws of UX
Laws of UXMadzielle
in reply to flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) • • •wjs018
in reply to flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) • • •I feel the same. I'm going to be a bit self-centered and quote myself from the piefed matrix chat:
bdonvr
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •How is a post that has "Piefed is cool" in the title a "campaign against Piefed"?
The other two posts are by one person.
bdonvr
2026-02-01 11:48:30
Skavau
in reply to bdonvr • • •bdonvr
in reply to Skavau • • •I've definitely noticed some anti-piefed sentiment in the past week or so. But before that it seemed mostly vocal Piefed users against Lemmy.
It's all silly.
aGlassDarkly
in reply to bdonvr • • •PiraHxCx
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Skavau
in reply to PiraHxCx • • •PiraHxCx
in reply to Skavau • • •Lastly, even though I have blocked hexbear and lemmygrad, I find it lame that'd they'd ban it by default :P
Skavau
in reply to PiraHxCx • • •PiraHxCx
in reply to Skavau • • •Skavau
in reply to PiraHxCx • • •Lemmy.ml isn't blocked at all.
I meant hexbear and lemmygrad.
gigachad
in reply to PiraHxCx • • •Flyberius [comrade/them]
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •funbreaker
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •becausechemistry
in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •Piefed: defederates from instances full of really obnoxious trolls
Obnoxious trolls: but, but, but, then how will we troll them? :(