…who?

Oh look at all the fun future me is going to have:-).

PieFed has this feature, Lemmy does not. Actually, there are a lot of things that I could say that about:-). Post flairs, polls, multi-communities that are user customizable and shareable, etc.

Reminds me of this funny bit from Louis C.K. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBdwNP7xk_6/ (profanity)

Alrighty then, let’s goooo…

Error: integer value expected.

Is that… loss?

That’s just what they want us to think! /s 😜

Wait a minute… oh no no no no no no, that is what they want to sell us us to think! (as they game the system and control the AI, no /s no cap!)

Not that hungry…

Yet…

What… link (or image)?

I did not include either a link or an image, that I can see - did your app try to render/interpret some text as an image? I find such differences in how we all experience something in common to be fascinating!:-)

To be fair, the entire workflow of using PieFed is different than using Lemmy. It took me a whole week to switch, and much longer than that to refine my processes.

Like one thing you can do on PieFed, but not on Lemmy, is to ask for Notifications to be sent to you. For posts, for comments, for entire communities, for users, almost anything you want (okay so not an entire instance, that would be insane!:-) - and you can even stop receiving notifications for your own content as well, which is a HUGE advantage over Lemmy. I almost left Lemmy entirely when people from Hexbear and Lemmygrad kept pinging me for WEEKS and WEEKS on end, long after I ceased responding. To be fair that’s kinda what those communities do, but I did not know that at the time, and when browsing posts via All there is no way to see the community side-bar. Lemmy offers a TERRIBLE experience to someone who doesn’t already know how things work on the Threadiverse.:-( Btw, PieFed shows the community side-bar below every single post.:-) Anyway, for a community that is rarely posted to, or that you moderate, this is a great way to stay abreast of every single post.

Another difference is that on Lemmy, in order to find enough content I mostly browsed All, which meant that I had to constantly block communities that I had no interest in - like sports, individual geographic locations, etc. And that process never ends. I suppose the Threadiverse has gotten bigger over the last year so I’m not sure if that’s as big a deal as it used to be. Anyway, PieFed walks a new user through signing up to many communities, but more importantly the categories of communities allow for a continual viewing of so much more besides.

I want to be clear there: PieFed made my “Subscribed” feed actually usable, bc I can now do things like block content from e.g. c/news, yet still see anytime I want. I’m saying that I can both have my cake and also eat it too!

I too used to prefer the Lemmy UI. But now that I see what PieFed is offering that Lemmy never will, I don’t anymore.:-)

(Mostly, although I do miss certain things like seeing both up and downvotes listed separately - but PieFed is changing all the time and also app support is being added, plus the devs are extremely responsive, so if that or any feature is really something that people wanted, it would be prioritized and created very very quickly!:-)

I’m not sure why a mobile app should be considered a prerequisite? Some people access solely by desktop, others by tablet, personally I access nearly 100% by Firefox on Android, so I’m mobile but not app, and I know I’m not the only one.

Anyways, the connection between apps and platform is rather fluid - e.g. at one point many of the apps used by “Lemmy” were intended to work for Reddit, but then they ceased working for Reddit (which is just one of many reasons prompting many of us to come to the Fediverse over the years), and now they work for “Lemmy”. Some also work for Mbin and PieFed too, like Interstellar, and an unofficial fork of Thunder is being tested right now. Though PieFed’s API is still in development, so not many apps currently support it, that’s true.

I’ve never used Sync, so I’m not positive, but I do know that PieFed has many features that people say that Sync has. But I’ve mainly only used a web browser to access PieFed (and tested it in Interstellar). Also, is Sync still being developed actively? (Or perhaps I am thinking of Connect.) The world of apps is constantly changing, and ones that aren’t maintained may one day stop working for Lemmy too, as the communication with the backend changes.

Regarding “political views”, um I’m pretty sure it’s a bit more than something like whether to promote trains or cars, it’s EXTREMIST viewpoints like whether genocide is okay or not (the answer, it seems, depends on who’s doing it, for some reason?).

In any case, it’s awesome to have alternatives. Even assuming total goodwill towards every dev of every platform, it’s good to not have all the hopes and dreams of the entire Fediverse placed into one platform. Like one thing I absolutely adore about PieFed is how it can add new features, which even Reddit was refusing to do near the end. They kept focusing exclusively on their profits, whereas PieFed keeps focusing on improving the end user experience, and I love that! 💘

I’m just being pedantic, but also the problem seems easily solved by having someone else moderate that instance, while they focus on just the coding.

Of course they are 100% free to do as they choose and I would not dream of wanting them to do otherwise.

Then too, the people deciding whether to donate can do the same - and it seems that the rather unusual moderation practices of lemmy.ml are a sticking point for whether they want to contribute funds or not. The amount of those funds, whether the devs have the “right” to do so or not, that is all besides the point. Some people just don’t like to fund things like genocide, period.

But now we are veering into political territory that I know less about. Thank you for sharing those facts about the situation, as I continue to learn about it that is very helpful:-).

My impression is they’re decent about making Lemmy a tech project not a personal political platform

But… isn’t it impossible to donate solely to the software, when they also will use the funds to pay server costs for lemmy.ml? The referenced post did not exactly highlight that little tidbit of information… yet isn’t it true nonetheless?

I am sorry for your bad experience on Lemmy. Most people fall into the same trap, and more often than not, leave altogether. I am currently at 100% of the people that I’ve told about Lemmy actively chiding me for having done so, due to them having come here, seen that, and immediately noped out.

It doesn’t help that Google points people to Lemmy.ml (DuckDuckGo properly points to Lemmy.World, as the most active instance, but lemmy.ml has an older history), which to a guest account shows only Local (rather than globally All) posts, which ofc are full of people making fun of the Western world and society - even to the point of saying that people who do such innocuous activities as having bank accounts should be killed (sadly, I’m not joking, although the people making such claims likely were… and yet… were they, were they REALLY?!).

Nobody likes to be made fun of, so it’s no surprise that the likes of Reddit’s r/RedditAlternatives is filled with such stories of people encountering such and never coming back. But I am glad that despite Lemmy.ml’s efforts to hide it, you managed to find the nicer portions of Lemmy where we can actually enjoy conversations.:-)

Ah, sorry to hear that. Fwiw, I use the PieFed website UI on Firefox and am perfectly happy with that. There are several themes to choose from, and it has maximal features that way, not needing the app to catch up with them:-).

What?

PieFed, Mbin, nodebb, flarum - this is a partial listing of the software that does similar to Lemmy, and there’s more besides them even (okay so development on Sublinks seems to be exceedingly slow these days, but the code is still there if anyone wants to contribute…).

And this doesn’t even begin to touch on the likes of Mastodon, Friendica, Peertube, Pixelfed, Loops (okay tbf this one isn’t federating yet iirc, but it planned to?), all of which share people’s thoughts and words in a social media atmosphere.

Lemmy isn’t the sole competitor to Reddit by any stretch. Heck, a year ago Lemmy.World put out a post (I can find it if you really need me to?) all but outright announcing their intention to switch to Sublinks when it became ready. And at the time that had like 80% of all Lemmy MAUs (monthly active users).

Lemmy is not what makes this place special. The people here are what make this place special. If the people move, then what makes it special will go with them. I personally migrated to PieFed 7 months ago (before it was fully ready), and now that PieFed has surpassed Lemmy in terms of features (e.g. we just added polls and post flairs), I am certain that I am not the only one willing to do so.:-)

You are paying for their programming, not their opinions.

Also, I was going to respond to your original comment but suppose I’ll combine it here: you do not seem to be aware that donations also go to support the server costs of Lemmy.ml. Thus, you are in fact paying for their opinions to be spread - they seem to not be offering the choice for others to receive only the code support but not Lemmy.ml?

Check out PieFed - whether you stay with it or not is immaterial, I’m saying that you’ll be impressed as fuck with what you see. The sign-up wizard alone will probably make you fall absolutely in love with it. And if not, then the LONG list of features definitely will - e.g. categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable. Then, even if you decide to keep using your Lemmy account, you’ll at least know what is going on with PieFed, which is amazing:-). (The Interstellar app supports PieFed officially, with that coming for Thunder as well.)

They both offer advantages that the other does not. The funny thing is that for PieFed, the advantages tend to be “features not available on Lemmy”, while for Lemmy it’s “having to change away from what I was already used to”, which is going to forcibly be changed out from under you regardless, the next time a major UI update occurs and your instance upgrades to it.

I almost want to dare you to just make a PieFed account and play with it for an hour… except you might be better to wait, given the high likelihood that you’ll be strongly tempted to switch:-).

In truth, I fall back to my Discuss.Online account often, in order to use the search function, which on PieFed is pretty lackluster. Then again, the rest of the 99.9% of the time I use my PieFed main, so there’s that:-).