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.