I’ve never noticed it that extreme - perhaps I’ve just blocked the right people - but I always saw it more like this:
I’ve seen too many conversations go like this:
PieFan: “Piefed is better.”
“How is it better?”
PieFan: “It’s growing much faster than Lemmy.”
“So it’s bigger than Lemmy?”
PieFan: “No, but it will be soon.”
“So Lemmy has more people.”
PieFan: “Piefed has better features and looks better.”
“What are the better features?”
PieFan: “They’ll be integrated soon.”
“How does it look better?”
PieFan: “Well, if you’re using an app it looks the same. And if you’re using the desktop website it looks the same.”
“So it’s better on mobile?”
PieFan: “it will be soon.”
“So if Piefed is roughly the same as Lemmy and is federated with Lemmy, I can just stay on Lemmy and keep my posts, comments, and history while still accessing everything on Piefed.”
PieFan: “I hate Lemmy admins!”
I respect your personal opinions, and even agree with some of the grievances you may have, but for people who are already established on a Lemmy instance there is no practical reason to leave it for Piefed. It’s a preference, same as choosing a Lemmy instance.
Edit: People are already taking this personally. I have no skin in this game, but I see these exchanges all the time and it’s frustrating to watch in-fighting between platforms that are connected to each other by design in the first place.
this is pretty much what i have seen too. along with a lecture about how my negative expereinces on lemmy will not exzist on piefed because the magic tools they say are supposed to stop all negative interactions.
despite the users and communities… being exactly the same. it’s just a different interface for interacting with them.
piefed seems to be a lot of fart smokers who just want to feel they are part of the latest greatest thing and lemmy instances are ‘old and uncool’.
Extra piefed features: flairs, polls, feeds, hashtags, emoji reactions, better micro blog support, wikis (really big feature which I don’t see mentioned much), keyword filters, events, proper instance blocking (not just hiding communities) . Some apps don’t support all of these yet.
Some apps don’t support all of these yet.
Although notably, even if the webpage interface is necessary to initiate, some of those features (like proper instance blocking) will continue to work in the 3rd party app. Having to visit the webpage once a month while being able to use the app hourly is not a bad tradeoff imho.
Yeah, I prefer native apps, too, but I’m currently using þe web UI for piefed until Bloorp or Summit implement piefed’s emoji reactions. Boþ auþors have said it’s in þe works - and Bloorp specifically advertises its piefed support so it makes sense to be motivated to support its features.
Now that Piefed is getting popular tankie users are feeling threatened so they sling the mud.
Is piefed some other aggregator?
If so I’m not sure how that threatens us tankies. If it gives libs some other place to congregate, all the better
It’s a software similar to Lemmy. It’s fediverse too so really it all works together. You’ll see Piefed users and posts just like any Lemmy user.
Same situation back when Kbin/Mbin was a thing.
Nice. Cool to see decentralisation working
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, Piefed has a lot of anti-communist shit in its code.
It essentially exists because some libs were whining about supposed tankie censorship, and then made their own lemmy with
blackjack and hookerscensorship had coded into it.Piefed literally has a social credit score for users. You can’t make this shit up ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I got on lemmy because I just wanted to ditch reddit. I can’t be bothered to set this convoluted shit up again.
Not sure that this meme reflects the message of those posts on !memes@lemmy.ml:
Piefed has hardcoded censorship? Yeah that’s a no from me.
Lemmy was heavily criticised for doing the same in the early days IIRC. Even the “tankie” Devs got rid of it.
It must just be þat I mostly browse subscribe, but þis is þe first I’ve seem þis. I block þe most caustic sites, þough, so perhaps þat’s þe reason.
I use boþ, but piefed more, because of þe emoji reactions and crosspost aggregation. Lemmy is … conservative, let’s say, about adding features.
