Comment on Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance!
fievel@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
So, as many here, I joined Lemmy two years ago following the reddit change regarding their API policy. I always have been rather open-source enthusiast (even though that I became less extreme with years and professional compitr science experience), so Lemmy seemed to me the perfect replacement.
I was not disappointed and, as an end-user, I still enjoy Lemmy better than I had ever liked reddit. However, during the two years that I have been using Lemmy and the grow of the user base, l experienced two instances shutdown, my first one shutdown overnight without any warning and, just now, lemm.ee is shutting down because moderation become unmanageable for instance admins.
So this bring me to my point, since reaction to posts about lemm.ee shutdown, I hear a lot speaking about piefed. Is piefed somehow better than lemmy? Is it right that lemmy communities are accessible through piefed? What are arguments for switching to piefed or to remain on lemmy?
Do you know any good threads, blog post, whatever discussing this, that can help me figure out?
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Hey, so better is more of an objective term - piefed offers a more comprehensive moderation experience for admins and mods, and addresses some of the issues that users raise around multiple communities and account settings etc.
Piefed runs on activitypub just like lemmy does, so are compatible with eachother - you probably already see piefed users and communities in your lemmy feed.
I wouldn’t say there is an argument either way from a user perspective- I’d encourage people to try both and see what they like.
There are no front ends yet that work with piefed (like tesseract or photon) but they’re being worked on. There’s also only a few apps, but similarly these are being worked on too, so before long you can probably interact with either software through an app.
Lemmy was the first and so is the most popular, and I hope the devs are able to bring some of the moderation features over to lemmy too, as it is quite a limited experience in comparison to many fediverse softwares.
Hope that helps, but tldr try both and see which one you like, they can interact with eachother anyway, I.e. piefed.zip/c/home can be interacted with via lemmy.zip/c/home@piefed.zip
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 days ago
I’m curious what performance and resource usage is like. Building a social media service in Python seems unusual.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I find that sentiment weird. Python is a popular language for social networks. Instagram, threads, and some parts of the clusterfuck that is facebook are written in python.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
We will be doing our usual server updates for piefed as well so will share this info!