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mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days agoThat's a very good question. I don't have a good answer ATM. I have both because I'm on the fence.
Lemmy and piefed both scratch the topic discovery itch. Both are excellent software.
Piefed pros:
1. Topics (collection of communities) are awesome to subscribe to.
2. One of the best fediverse integrations out there.
3. The python is easy to read.
4. Mod tools are great.
5. The main dec is a treasure
Lemmy pros:
- Very reddit like UI.
- Lots of apps phone or otherwise.
- Very well supported by admins of the bigger instances
Lemmy has an easier way to post than piefed. The selection of communities is a bit better. Piefed is much easier to stand up on home servers (I did it once). It's also seeing a large amount of dev work right now. And as I've said before it has much better fediverse integration than Lemmy.
gon@lemm.ee 2 days ago
You know, you make it sound like Piefed is pretty strictly better! If the pros for Lemmy boil down to a larger user-base…
Well, I’ll definitely be checking it out! Thanks for the reply :D
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days ago
Oh yeah filters! They are a thing. Works pretty well on piefed.
gon@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Do all filters have that 3 level system? Blocking all, most, or none of a certain topic? Because that is a Feature, capital F Feature.
Also, do you know of an alternative front-end for Piefed? I use alexandrite.app for Lemmy, there’s also phtn.app. Does Piefed have something like that?
freamon@preferred.social 2 days ago
Yes - that Trump/Musk form is just a shortcut to setting up your own filter - the options on that form equate to 'hide completely', 'make semi-transparent' (so you can see the post, but it's faded out), or "don't set up a filter"
There's the one I made (the one linked to by OpenStars), but I think the more promising development is that the Interstellar dev has made some progress supporting PieFed too (Interstellar is already the only app that supports both MBIN and Lemmy, and I like the idea of one app for 3 different platforms).
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 days ago
A port of Thunder has been made, ready for testing.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days ago
It has front ends but it's inbuilt.