Lemmy vs Mbin vs PieFed

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• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I am being honest, Mbin/Kbin’s concept is much better than Lemmy. I like how you can microblog and just use it like a normal forum, which means you can interact with even more people since microblogs (from Mastodon, for example) don’t really federate with Lemmy.

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish there were more Mbin apps

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• gi1242@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use Lemmy because there’s a good ad free app (jerboa)

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah jeroboa is awesome! They did great work.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good? Hah

    (Written in jerboa, constantly fighting with the keyboard bugs the devs refuse to fix)

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• fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  tl;dr:

  Lemmy for apps (shit moderation tools)

  Piefed for fast development rate, responsive dev and great features (no apps at all)

  Mbin for keeping your forum and microblog account in one place (really awkward to use)

  Can’t go wrong with any.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t use Lemmy apps with piefed? I thought the API was the same?

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    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, that’s sublinks which isn’t finished yet.

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  • xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thunder is being forked for piefed. Once this happens I’ll move to piefed full time. In the mean time we should think of a better band and logo for piefed which the creator said he’s open to changing

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    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I heard of that, but I also like to use a third party web client like photon or tesseract too. Piefed is still new so it doesn’t have the same level of support as Lemmy does. Thunder being ported is a huge step imo and a path for more apps and clients being created or ported to it.

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    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looking forward to it!!

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• Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mbin has microblogg and thread support, so you can post and respond to both formats, piefed and mbin both have the goal of letting instance owners or ppl make topics that contain multiple communities to make it easier to sub to similar topics, like subbing to linux topic for linux, linuxmemes, etc. instead of subbing one by one and finding communities whos name may not fit what they are

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  • Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right now lemmy has better app support, eventually Id love to see just one client/app that supports threads, microblogging, etc. with feeds, you kinda have to build your feed brick by birck with friendica, streams, hubzilla, etc. but they connect them all no apps tho

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• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • Lemmy pros: Fast, mature, everyone knows it
  • Lemmy cons: Shouty communists, atrocious mod tools
  • Mbin pros: Follow Mastodon people
  • Mbin cons: (1) Ugly (2) What the fuck is “Magazines”
  • Piefed pros: Python, some semblance of responsiveness to what features people actually want in it
  • Piefed cons: What the fuck is a Piefed

  (all is satire, I love you guys)

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What the fuck is “Magazines”

    This but unironically. I could never get over it with Kbin and still can’t with Mbin. It’s a bad name for a community/sub and I’ll die on that hill. You can never get me to call a meme shitpost an “article” in a “magazine”.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t emphasize enough how bad Lemmy’s moderation tools are. It’s not just that they’re abysmally anemic (including that you can’t perform moderator actions on someone in your community without a comment of theirs to click the context menu on? what??). It’s not just that reports don’t synchronize correctly across instances (i.e. if you want to moderate a community on another instance, you’re at a severe disadvantage). It’s that they’re wildly fragmented, presented just all over the place like some kind of scavenger hunt.

    • As I said previously, the context menu of a comment is the only way you can ban and unban users (except that you actually can ban them if you use the API directly).
    • Moderation has zero hierarchy, so 1) any moderator if they want to can perform a Night of the Long Knives and become the sole moderator (fine for now when admins can quickly intervene, but impossibly stupid if Lemmy ever became bigger), and 2) every moderator has access to all of the tools (including appointing other admins).
    • You can’t view a list of banned users and unban them from there; this gets back into point 1 where you need to dig up the last comment on your community (not easily if you removed it) to unban them.
    • On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren’t exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.
    • I literally can’t even view a per-community modlog on desktop. I have to go out and find the Lemmy.World modlog (usually from a search engine) and then filter by action and pray that it was recent enough that I can find it in the rest of the heap.
    • Oh, but don’t worry. There’s a third-party tool for viewing the modlog, which is just ??? What the fuck?? How is this in some random tool you have to go searching for instead of in Lemmy proper? And even then, this tool has its flaws.

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    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re on LW, newer versions of Lemmy are better in that regard.

      tesseract.dubvee.org is a better frontend for moderation. Allows you to see votes as a mod, and ban users who never commented or posted.

      I literally can’t even view a per-community modlog on desktop.

      There’s an orange “modlog” button in the sidebar of every community that shows the community modlog?

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren’t exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.

      Apollo was also better at moderating Reddit than whatever Reddit could put out so you could say Voyager goes above and beyond at cloning Apollo.

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• mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Piefed/mbin both have better fediverse integration with other platforms. Lemmy has the numbers and is super fast + apps.

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• Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mbin has better support for microblogs and Mastodon federation than Lemmy. I also prefer the default front-end of Mbin to Lemmy, but Lemmy has better alternative frontends and apps. I think it’s great to support Mbin as well.

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