Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user? Remember the majority of users don’t post, comment or otherwise interact with the platform beyond voting.
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.
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.
As I said, it has a lot more polish. Its easier to discover communities, and it has feeds.
Two questions for you, I’m genuinely curious, I hope they don’t come up as agressive
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.
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
This comm is much bigger, and I happened to be on my .ee account at the time.
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
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Keyword filtering is about to be merged into Lemmy. Other features will also be added over time.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Will there be a release with that feature before Lemmy 1.0, or will it be delivered with Lemmy 1.0?
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It could be backported, but there are now significant changes between the 0.19 and development branches, so it would take some work.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Fair point, but mobile apps and inertia seem to outweigh those additional features
rimu@piefed.social 3 weeks 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.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.