This is a unique experiment in the Fediverse.
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The fediverse really do be like that sometimes.
But seriously, this is very cool and I love to see people being creative and sharing things like this. I saw your earlier post about this and it seemed like a great idea.
Also Piefed is awesome and it's great to see more people discovering and talking about it.
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So is piefed an app or another type of fediverse? I'm not sure I understand. It looks like it talks to both Mastodon and Lemmy, but I could be wrong.
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It's another type of content aggregator like Lemmy and Mbin. Totally unique software, not just an app.
It's not as well known because it only started development a little over a year ago, well after the APIcalypse when most of the Lemmy userbase came over from reddit. But it's been improving rapidly and already has a lot of innovative features that Lemmy lacks. I believe that one of those features is better compatiblility with Mastodon, but I'm not entirely sure. It's also written in Python which makes it easy for a variety of developers to contribute if they so wish.
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Its a lemmy alternative written in Flask (Python). Piefed has got more moderation features and is probably faster to develop being written in Python. Both lemmy and piefed can talk to Mastodon (and obv to each other too).
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Its exceptionally good at federation and has a unique(?) solution to multiple like communities (Topics). Topics can be lemmy communities, but can also be peertube channels. Example: https://piefed.social/topic/wholesome
It also has anonymous downvoting so you don't have the issue like lemmy where admins know exactly how everyone votes across all of lemmy.
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That sounds awesome!
Maybe PieFed's new feeds feature could be used to combine communities in interesting ways - https://piefed.social/post/500805
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I do
n’t meanthis in a pretentious “guy in a turtleneck sniffing his own farts” way.
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Indeed.
Although the private voting feature isn't all that effective. First of all it doesn't work with trusted instances (which includes many of the big ones), and secondly it only obscures the voter identity, it doesn't completely randomize it.
See these posts for context.
https://piefed.social/post/408115#post_replies
https://piefed.social/post/205362#comment_2496068
I don't necessarily think these limitations are a bad thing, because totally private voting could theoretically be a vector for bad actors to manipulate the visibility of content on the fediverse. This solution provides some protection for the average user but also makes it possible for admins to identify vote manipulation if it becomes a problem.
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Digging your energy though, love seeing this excitement!
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It’s cool and all. But a completely new art form? I think you’re overselling it…then again, if it’s a marketing tactic, it’s a solid one.
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The two examples look the same to me
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I don’t mean this in a pretentious “guy in a turtleneck sniffing his own farts” way.
It's better than finding a guy in a turtleneck sniffing my farts. I don't want to kink-shame but it was a crowded bus and he could have asked first.
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This is so cool!
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Sounds like marketing, not art.
