Thank you! ❤️

I gotta say, it causes me to pre-judge a comment when I see the number (green or red).

yeah

Yeah, but look at the scale involved. That being said, I do expect it to stick around and become a major part of the ecosystem.

I put together this short list of benefits Piefed offers to regular users in response to one of our members at slrpnk asking about our future migration to it.

PieFed, like Mbin, was written from the ground up, and in a totally different language than Lemmy.

But it interoperates with Lemmy, so yeah it’s very similar. Except the LARGE list of features that PieFed has that Lemmy lacks, and a handful of features that Lemmy still does better on.

Moreover, Lemmy will likely not ever catch up to PieFed. One reason being that certain features are incompatible with the authoritarian mindset - e.g. when a moderator removes your content, why should you as the poster be notified of that fact?

But also, PieFed is written in Python that is a heck of a lot easier to code in than Rust, so the fact that PieFed not only caught up to Lemmy but has already surpassed it in SO MANY ways is a strong indicator of its future success.

But aside from the tankies building in tankie philosophy right into the core of the Lemmy software, it depends on whether someone wants those additional features or not. Like polls, flairs (both user and post), categories of communities, which btw are user customizable and shareable, combining all comments across all cross-posts (helping to reverse the fragmentation effect inherent in federated platforms), and so much more.

I bet that if you tried out PieFed for a day, you’d fall in love with it. You can also do entirely different workflows with it, like trigger notifications to be sent to you that really helps you to stay on top of posts from communities that are very low-volume (and so have trouble making it into your Subscribed feed, like poetry rather than politics or worshipping Arch Linux), but those are likely to take more than a day to figure out - there’s definitely a learning curve. Also note that ymmv with regard to the different apps not (yet!) fully utilizing all the features offered by the PieFed back-end.

If you’re using the browser, the Piefed main page is a lot more data efficient, if you care about that sort of thing.

Feature-wise there are some differences, but they both are part of the same fediverse so you’ll have access to the same content.

Personally I am used to the Lemmy UI, and I feel like it’s not as easy to see if a mod report was being taken care of on PieFed vs Lemmy

Yes the lemm.ee switch-over crowd is over so it will be interesting to see the more natural growth after that.

e.g. from January to March PieFed (edit: 's Monthly Active Users) more than doubled in size long before lemm.ee’s troubles were widely announced.

Typically as people hear about the new features and are astonished by how PieFed offers exactly what people have been outright begging to see brought to Lemmy (heck, in some cases even Reddit) but they simply won’t do it. In fairness, perhaps they cannot, given their current pace of development, but also their prioritization may differ from those of the end-users (I have noticed that particularly things that involve federation between instances - e.g. modlog actions - typically receive much lower prioritization than things that will work inside a singular instance, perhaps reflecting the bias that the main Lemmy devs are also the admins of their own personal instance? for good or for ill, it is what is is: this is their platform, and if someone does not like it then they are free to go ahead and make their own from scratch, which both Kbin, before it was forked to Mbin, and now PieFed have done just that:-D).

Everything I personally dislike is tankie! You dorks sound like those conservative idiots who call everything leftist Marxist communist

Ah, it says “by month”, not “per month”. Well, shit, that’s not good news then.

The posts and comments listed there are locally hosted total values (not per month)

Yeah, you did a bit more than that, going by your mod history.

Anyway, it’s true that mods tend to like power tripping, because it’s about the only way to get something positive out of the boring and unpleasant work of an unpaid internet moderator.

Have you not been on reddit in the last 5 years? It’s a highly censored, tightly controlled, far left echo chamber.

Hmm, I already had that enabled. I see it now on your comments, but not on other people’s posts even if I upvote them and for people like The_Picard_Maneuver that I know I’ve upvoted in the past. I guess it’s just buggy.

Then you must be avoiding politics and the major news communities here - which is good advice for anyone to follow - in which case the rest of the Threadiverse is outright kind. Reddit used to have such people but they stopped talking years ago - I know I did.

One thing to note about Reddit mods: the Rexodus broke the power of anyone who resisted, so the tiny dick energy thing is by design as in anyone there nowadays is a collaborator to its authoritarian regime, who of course is a very different type of personality (a conciliatory style: think “cop”, where power flows downhill) than what used to be the case years ago. I am speaking though of small niche subs - the largest ones had already enshittified by then, for different reasons. Power corrupts.

But the Threadiverse is new, and so the early adoptor mindset reigns supreme. There are definitely authoritarians though - some of the more major ones you cannot see since Lemmy.world has defederated from them, thereby protecting you from that. Lemmy.ml still exists though, and if you ever say anything slightly negative about Russia, China, or North Korea (or in some cases simply not supportive enough of them?), then you can be banned from every community across the entire instance including ones you’ve never commented in before. So such things do exist here… but yeah there are also kind people here too, and that’s awesome! (Whereas on Reddit I simply gave up all hope whatsoever for anything positive, buried amidst all the mountains of trash)

Huh. Well mine looks to have totally different kinds of links and articles, so maybe they compliment each other.

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