I found the platform pretty streamlined. I’ve had to learn so many different programs by this age of the internet, I’m willing to take the time to get used to anything.

I use Lemmy for managing my communities, conversations, rare debates, and I browse by subscribed. I have like two bots blocked and that’s it, so Lemmy.Today suits my ideal experience, after trying a few instances — the policy is *not to defederate from anyone until they make problems. The core tenants are simple: be civil, no bigotry. Mr. Manager is a helpful, approachable admin.

For piefed, I don’t like the flagging of low karma accounts or the automatic instance blocks for .ml, .grad and hexbear(even if you can undo it right away.) I’m not a big fan of subscribing by categories either, and didn’t stay long enough to sort that part out. For me, the sign-up wizard was too much like other social media onboarding I’m not a fan of. That kind of sums up my opinion of it: it’s more public friendly-feeling and that irks me as a little trashy bitch goblin. I prefer to be thrown in blind where I can hit buttons until I figure it out.

There were things I liked. As an avid decentralist I’m glad there is a Piefed out there, but I prefer my instance for now.

Either way, thanks for taking the time to add some information. I’m sure it’ll help folks figure out where they want to be even if it didn’t change my mind.

Edit: a word