So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.

What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?

Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.

On which one should we put our weight?

Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781

  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I see a lot of piefed posts on Lemmy - are we not federated across so that we’re getting the milk without needing to buy the cow?

    • beSyl@slrpnk.netOP
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      2 months ago

      It is still important to support the better project, be it with our attention, or with our money/donations. What “better” means here depends on the metric.

      Again, in this time and age, specially with everything going on around the world, I would hope that there is more thought about using/buying something.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It is still important to support the better project

        If everyone went to the “best” instance it would crash it…

        Like, you do realize the whole “decentralized” thing is why most of us are here, right?

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          OP is talking about the software all of the instances run on, not the individual servers themselves.

          • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I would say that having a variety of software options also helps keep one party from having too much power, which is the main focus of federation. It’s not as important as having a variety of instances, but we can have both, so why not take advantage of it?

      • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I mean, I don’t jump from trend to trend, so I’ll support Lemmy until either the project gets depreciated and no more updates happen. I can still see everything because piefed is federated, so why jump from platform to platform every few months? What features really are there that make a difference?

        • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Piefed lists comments from crossposts together, grouped by post, so there is less repetition due to crossposts.

          Piefed lets me tag users so I can mark who is a dumbass and not worth replying to, which is nice because I block fewer users and don’t miss out on their posts that are fine because their comments elsewhere are terrible.

          The two things I don’t like about piefed is that they don’t have a compact view for image posts and they don’t make the modlog easy to get to or search.