Comment on BIG MILESTONE! We’ve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social. 🎉

• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  piefed users have a “quirky” personality flaw about bringing up how great piefed is when it wasn’t asked for or even relevant to the discussion. case in point, posting on a lemmy instance about a milestone on piefed. although not completely irrelevant to the community, I don’t really get the justification about posting on here about a different instance other than self promotion.

  it would be like me posting on here about my personal instance. yeah sure, it’s gaming adjutant, but wholely a cheap ploy to deliver free advertising to an instance that is siphoning interactions and content away from the community.

  secondly, I don’t believe any of the points about piefed being “better” since a social media platforms performance by users is entirely subjective by the user. I don’t believe any platform that uses Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook as a shining example of what “good” is should be trusted. this is also applicable to lemmy and mastodon at large. the only thing that the platforms have going for them is federation, but even that can be damaging to the users (eg: hexbear/ml instances).

  my point is, I don’t like piefed because everyone on it seems so pushy to get others to be on it. it is working though, posts on lemmy have noticeably dropped over the last couple months. presumably shifting to piefed, which I have blocked the instances of so I couldn’t tell you one way or another.

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  • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t need to be on Piefed. Federation means you can stay on Lemmy, use whatever community you want, regardless of whatever platform it is.

    The reason I’m mentioning the milestone here is because I want to build a general gaming Piefed community.

    Not one that competes with this one, but one that complements it. You can enjoy multiple gaming communities, each with a different culture.

    Anyway, this is the Fediverse—not Reddit, Instagram, not TikTok. We’re not competing against each other. We’re building together.

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  • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    One thing to consider is the recent shutdown of lemm.ee which I believe was the second largest instance (by MAUs) after LW.

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