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• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is it like, a whole other network with different people or is it like a different front-end to the lemmyverse ? This is kind of confusing ? And what about that “kbin” I keep hearing about, is that the same deal ?

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lemmy is a software that people can host on their computer, and many people doing that form what is essentially a bunch of mini-reddits that can talk to each other to create one big platform.

    Piefed is trying to fulfill the same goals as Lemmy, and is even fully compatible with Lemmy, so someone hosting a piefed server on their computer can join in with all the Lemmy servers, and to the Lemmy people, it appears to them like any other Lemmy server.

    But underneath everything, code base is entirely different. The commonality they share, along with mastodon, is they all use ActivityPub, which is the standard that allows them to all communicate and be compatible with each other, just like there’s an email standard.

    Kbin (now Mbin) is yet another Lemmy compatible software that you can host on your computer, but it also tried to implement features that make it more like mastodon (twitter-like), so it can act both like reddit, with threads and comments and communities around single subjects, or be like mastodon and work with hashtags and following individuals instead of communities, like a microblogging website.

    They also use different interfaces, but it’s only visible to people who directly use that server; to others who access it from their home server, it’ll adopt the look of the software their home server is using.

    So as an example, you are using Lemmy since your home server is Lemmy.ml. if you visit a community hosted on a piefed server from within your Lemmy, like !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, it’ll look like any other Lemmy community.

    But if you directly go to that piefed server by going to piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube you’ll see it from the piefed interface, since you’re accessing that piefed server directly.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Remember that big discussion? https://lemmy.ml/post/36058152

    PieFed has had that feature for a long time, and many more besides. https://join.piefed.social/features/

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is there a piefed/mbin backend server or is it just an alternative webui client ?

      I’m thinking of switching to a self-hosted single user lemmy instance and run all 3 self-hosted clients to my self-hosted server, is that practical ?

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      • rimu@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, backend server.

        https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL.md

        You could run all 3 but it would be redundant as they all have the same content and people :D

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Neither. It’s fully compatible with Lemmy but different on both the front and backends.

    Summoning @rimu@piefed.social

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, piefed is just another front-end to the fediverse.

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  • Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a different frontend with different features. You could be reading this very post on a Piefed instance instead of a Lemmy instance. Ditto for kbin.

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