Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there’s a decent amount.

  The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one’s uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.

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  • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Keyword filtering is about to be merged into Lemmy. Other features will also be added over time.

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    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Will there be a release with that feature before Lemmy 1.0, or will it be delivered with Lemmy 1.0?

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      • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It could be backported, but there are now significant changes between the 0.19 and development branches, so it would take some work.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fair point, but mobile apps and inertia seem to outweigh those additional features

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    • rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Indeed, but at the moment only Interstellar has alpha support for Piefed.

        Once the Thunder for is released, and Voyager, Arctic, Summit etc start to support Piefed, then it will be the case.

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As I said, it has a lot more polish. Its easier to discover communities, and it has feeds.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Two questions for you, I’m genuinely curious, I hope they don’t come up as agressive

    • why are you still using your Lemm.ee account instead of Piefed
    • why create this post here instead of !fediverse@piefed.social ?

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This comm is much bigger, and I happened to be on my .ee account at the time.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And I’ve used this account for longer, so I don’t want to abandon it.

        Probably the main reason why people won’t move to Piefed either

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    • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      why create this post here instead of !fediverse@piefed.social ?

      This community is much bigger? He’s asking a question so probably want the input of the most people possible.

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It is, but there’s only one way to make Piefed grow, it’s to start getting Piefed communities more active.

        Lemmy covers pretty much all the topics the current Threadiverse is interested in, so at some point posters have to accept to post to smaller communities.

        I’m not saying everyone has to do it, but as OP states that Piefed is more polished, I was surprised

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• Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user?

  I don’t think it’s always easy to pinpoint UX issues and user friction. Sometimes these things just don’t stick with mainstream users. I say it’s worth a try to see which platform the average Reddit user will prefer.

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fair point. It probably hard to see this things when you’ve been in the thick of Lemmy for as long as most of us here have. It’s easy to dismiss not liking lemmy-ui because alternative frontends exist (written from Photon), but does that matter when the overwhelming majority of instances use it as their landing page.

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