Questions about PieFed
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I've seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,
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What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I'm more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).
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Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
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Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
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What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, "the website is the app" is not how I like to do it
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Any other questions you think I should be asking?
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I've seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,
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What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I'm more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).
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Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
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Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
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What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, "the website is the app" is not how I like to do it
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Any other questions you think I should be asking?
What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy?
It has more features, such as flairs, a way to move communities somewhere else, the ability to see comments from all crossposts, multi-communities, and it has a much faster development pace. The UX still needs some work, but that can be improved over time.
From a technical perspective it's made with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it's easier to host too.
Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
Yes and yes.
Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
You can export your Lemmy account settings and import them to Piefed, but not the other way around.
What android app options are available for PieFed?
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I've seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,
-
What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I'm more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).
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Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
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Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
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What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, "the website is the app" is not how I like to do it
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Any other questions you think I should be asking?
- Found this through a Google search:
Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack:
- instance blocking
- comments combination, posts only appear once
- keyword filter
- topics (admin-managed feeds)
- user-managed feeds, public and private
- tags
- flairs
- multi communities
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Yes & yes. They're built on ActivityPub and interact with each other, though the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn't (like tags) aren't visible from Lemmy. And Lemmy can subscribe and interact with posts from PieFed.
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Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.
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App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.
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Can't think of anything.
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- Found this through a Google search:
Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack:
- instance blocking
- comments combination, posts only appear once
- keyword filter
- topics (admin-managed feeds)
- user-managed feeds, public and private
- tags
- flairs
- multi communities
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Yes & yes. They're built on ActivityPub and interact with each other, though the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn't (like tags) aren't visible from Lemmy. And Lemmy can subscribe and interact with posts from PieFed.
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Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.
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App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.
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Can't think of anything.
What are the disadvantages of piefed over Lemmy?
- Found this through a Google search:
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What are the disadvantages of piefed over Lemmy?
Imo, no good IOS mobile apps. Mlem, Voyager and others are great. If something similar existed for PieFed I would dump my lemmy account immediately. They now have Interstellar but it's not stellar.
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What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy?
It has more features, such as flairs, a way to move communities somewhere else, the ability to see comments from all crossposts, multi-communities, and it has a much faster development pace. The UX still needs some work, but that can be improved over time.
From a technical perspective it's made with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it's easier to host too.
Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?
Yes and yes.
Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?
You can export your Lemmy account settings and import them to Piefed, but not the other way around.
What android app options are available for PieFed?
with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it's easier to host too.
I can't imagine it's much easier than Lemmy. As far as self hosting goes Lemmy is pretty standard. And with PieFed being python it's bound to be less efficient at the same scale.
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- Found this through a Google search:
Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack:
- instance blocking
- comments combination, posts only appear once
- keyword filter
- topics (admin-managed feeds)
- user-managed feeds, public and private
- tags
- flairs
- multi communities
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Yes & yes. They're built on ActivityPub and interact with each other, though the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn't (like tags) aren't visible from Lemmy. And Lemmy can subscribe and interact with posts from PieFed.
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Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.
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App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.
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Can't think of anything.
Lemmy does have instance blocking.
- Found this through a Google search:
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Lemmy does have instance blocking.
Piefed instance blocking blocks users comments as well
Lemmy instance blocking only hides communities, not users
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Imo, no good IOS mobile apps. Mlem, Voyager and others are great. If something similar existed for PieFed I would dump my lemmy account immediately. They now have Interstellar but it's not stellar.
The Mlem dev is in the Matrix chat and is interested in supporting Piefed
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Piefed instance blocking blocks users comments as well
Lemmy instance blocking only hides communities, not users
seems right. I wonder why the devs didn't implement that. would have been a simple change
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seems right. I wonder why the devs didn't implement that. would have been a simple change
Don't know either
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with Python which is much, much easier to use than Rust and attracts more contributors. From what I understand it's easier to host too.
I can't imagine it's much easier than Lemmy. As far as self hosting goes Lemmy is pretty standard. And with PieFed being python it's bound to be less efficient at the same scale.
Surprisingly, from what I read, it's much, much more efficient
