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gon@lemm.ee 1 year agoHow’s Pixelfed’s federation work? I thought it was an image-based thing, like Instagram, so how does that interop with, say, Lemmy?
I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while
Is that like TikTok? Or like Reels, I guess, since it’s Pixelfed. A shame it doesn’t work for you… I’m big on TikTok, might just give it a try, though I’m not sure I can find the content I want on such a niche platform.
PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm.
Over Lemmy? Why do you say so? I see what they list as differences from Lemmy and some of the features seem pretty nice, but I’m skeptical of this reputation business. Feels a little like Reddit karma, I don’t know.
Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.
I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.
Pixelfed federatipn works well. it shows up on anything activityhub related.
it shows up on anything activityhub related.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Pixelfed post… But I was thinking more so the other way around. Does anything AP-related show up on Pixelfed?
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 year ago
PieFed is more advanced than Lemmy in several ways, while less so in others.
Like for one it offers fantastic onboarding to the Fediverse via a wizard asking users what topics they are interested in and then signs them up to communities.
And for another, at any time users can view Categories of Communities, such as all things Fediverse, News & Politics, or Gaming, and now users can even create our own customized Feeds - all of this is in addition to rather than instead of the traditional Subscribed and All feeds.
Users can also follow anything - a user, community, post, single comment, etc. - plus stop following comments that you've written but no longer wish to receive notifications for.
It's REALLY cool! The major downsides revolve around it being newer and so a bit less polished, like there's now a post preview feature but that is not yet available for comment replies.
The codebase is written in Python, so is possible for more people to help out with making changes than Lemmy, written in Rust. Some people wonder if it might not scale as well to larger number of users, but so far that is not a problem and the speed of updates seems well worth that trade-off.
gon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I see… You make a compelling argument, to be honest, and those are some nice features. I really like this custom Feed thing.
I’m definitely delving into Piefed in the coming days.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 year ago
It is very much worth checking out, yes!
I use it as my daily driver. Some functions, like searching for posts, are abysmally bad - but thankfully that's the only one in that category. For me who can hop over to a Lemmy alt when I need to, PieFed is a great main. Another downside is that often I receive a notification for something that I cannot see, for a variety of reasons including that I've blocked all users from an instance (but hey, on PieFed that's actually possible in the first place!).
PieFed is definitely still in alpha, though ironically a better experience than Lemmy in many ways for all of that, even though a more frustrating one in other ways. An API is currently being tested using the Thunder app, which should help smooth the usability issues.
My advice: most definitely make a PieFed account - you have nothing to lose there - and also hold onto your older one. You'll use it less and less often, you'll see:-). There is a bit of a learning curve though, since PieFed offers so many new features and you'll want to try out this and that to see what works best for you. e.g. for some lower-volume communities, I have notifications set up to receive every single new post, rather than have to wait to find that while scrolling Subscribed or All. It really helps! (But can be quite overwhelming for higher-volume communities - the better way now could be to create a custom topic Feed, which I haven't tried yet but that's awesome that I now can:-).
gon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I love how excited you are about this!
I have a PieFed account. Set it up and browsed for a little, but haven’t found my way quite yet. I’ll try to figure it out this weekend.
I’ll probably post about my expedience on !gondaily@lemm.ee, one of these days.
Excited :D