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?
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.
Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.
App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.
Can’t think of anything.
Lemmy does have instance blocking.
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
Don’t know either
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.
The Mlem dev is in the Matrix chat and is interested in supporting Piefed
I read Voyager has plans to support PieFed once it hits 1.0 (not sure if “it” refers to Lemmy, Voyager, or PieFed.)
Once that happens, I’ll absolutely be donating. 💖
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To me the karma like system and collapsing comment with lot of downvotes
I’m far from a PieFed expert (I’ve only just started using it a little) but this is the main disadvantage.
Ok, but I would say that’s more a Lemmy disadvantage!
Would you know if there’s a way to export from Mbin to Piefed?
I find it kinda funny how Piefed seems to have blew up over mbin lol
I don’t think we support mbin export/import ATM, but I’ve not tried
I added Lemmy export and import to piefed a while back.
I have a note to go work on the piefed export to Lemmy import on my List. It worked a while ago but seems unhappy at the moment. I’ll add mbin export to the List as well.