Lemmy vs Mbin vs PieFed
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If you press the cog in the top right corner you can choose between six different themes, as well as moving the sidebar around, text size, and a bunch of other tweaks.
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Not familiar enough with PieFed to give an opinion, but among Lemmy and Mbin, of things I can observe:
- Lemmy has far more visual candies / visual noise than Mbin, whose UI rather barebones
- But as Mbin has a more basic UI, it tends to break less and be more compatible with user scripts and filters
- On RSS, from my experience, Mbin links to posts properly through RSS, while, maybe it's version-dependent, Lemmy sites seem to have a bit of trouble with linking posts with links attached to their titles, usually opening the title's attached link instead
- However, Mbin doesn't seem to be able to fetch the post's body through RSS
- On newer versions of the Lemmy engine, you can block instances and hide posts, but not block domains linked in posts
- On Mbin, afaik, you can't block instances nor hide posts (both requiring browser modifications from my tests), but you can block domains
- On Lemmy, also maybe version-dependent, but it seems that instances don't host RSS for federated communities, while Mbin does (good for redundancy, I think)
- For microblogging, RSS doesn't work on Mbin (might in the future?) despite other microblogging alternatives having them, and integration of microblogging to Lemmy only happens indirectly
- On Lemmy, some communities seem to have an extra step to subscribing where you need approval after applying, while Mbin doesn't
- Specific to Mbin, but the error 404 issue from Kbin when blocking or subscribing to an user or community seems to be extremely rare with its successor
- Lemmy allows visualizing how formatting will look like before posting, while Mbin doesn't
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On a more personal take, I prefer Mbin because "it just works", I use far more RSS than the sites directly, and when I use them directly, I use an UBlock Origin filter to hide posts I either vote up or down (very responsive =D ) and block sites I recognize as manipulative (rather common sadly). That also makes so I end up not missing much on Lemmy's functions.
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What the fuck is “Magazines”
This but unironically. I could never get over it with Kbin and still can't with Mbin. It's a bad name for a community/sub and I'll die on that hill. You can never get me to call a meme shitpost an "article" in a "magazine".
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that Mbin supports custom magazine/community CSS like Old Reddit did. Don't think it's federated currently though, so it's local only. There's also the ability to follow users and boost (retweet) content, which Lemmy lacks.
Judging by recent posts by Piefed's creator, they seem to be planning to add end-to-end encryption and ephemeral content.
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I use Lemmy because there's a good ad free app (jerboa)
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I use an UBlock Origin filter to hide posts I either vote up or down
Would you maybe share your filter as a separate post? Seems handy
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Yeah, but that's bad, though.
Hypercustomization is way more of a hassle than a positive in most applications. I will take a couple of binary settings, I won't design the UI for you.
My contention here is that the default UI for the *Bin is actually good.
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If I am being honest, Mbin/Kbin's concept is much better than Lemmy. I like how you can microblog and just use it like a normal forum, which means you can interact with even more people since microblogs (from Mastodon, for example) don't really federate with Lemmy.
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How does the boosting work? Because I was never a major Twitter user, and on Tumblr, the "retweet". Option makes things a bit of a disjointed mess because (at least with new Tumblr and the app) it treats each share as a separate post and they aren't linked properly together. So, say someone responds to a comment you made on the reshare ten reshare ago. You may or may not even be able to access it. You may not even be able to find it.
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The Tesseract front end is just completely superior for moderation imo. It took me a little bit of getting used to, but it is clean
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Boosting re-sends the original message, with the original message id attached, and both Lemmy and mbin filter filter out duplicates. On Lemmy, upvoting a post boosts it, and on mbin the functions are separate. Boosting works to get the community/magazine group actor to re-send the post to subscribed remote sites, so if the site you're using subscribed to a community after the original post was made, it could now receive it thanks to the boost.
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I personally like being able to easily change the colour theme, but it's of course entirely optional. Each to their own.
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Whoops! I didn't even notice the Modlog because (at least for me) it's tucked away at the very bottom of the sidebar and nestled between the list of mods and some statistics I don't really care too much about.
Genuinely my bad, though; I should've looked harder. Appreciate it now that I can finally see it! -
I wish there were more Mbin apps
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So it doesn't work like it does on Tumblr then. Thank you!
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Being able to customize everything and having the defaults not be shit would be great. Using the customization options, which are excellent, as an excuse for the defaults being shit doesn't fly. To me.
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Not here, no. It does on Mastodon and other microblogs, though.
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Don't get too excited. It seems to be missing a bunch of stuff.
I don't really know the explanation for why the Lemmy API seems to just randomly drop stuff out of the modlog if it's more than 5-10 entries long, but you'll have to search for the exact stuff you're specifically looking for a lot of the time. Maybe I am misunderstanding what I'm seeing but I've gotten the strong impression that's what I'm seeing. It's similar to how looking at a user's profile randomly drops comments out after a certain time and just switches to posts only, so it's hard to search through for specific stuff you're looking for. Apparently that is going to be fixed in 0.20.
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but I think the assumption that you'd centralize multiple AP services in a single app now feels entirely obsolete
It's not that I want a single app, it's that I want a single account with all my posts/data even though I'm using different apps. I don't want to have to have so many duplicate follows across all the different fediverse apps.
