What are the pros/cons of piefed for someone who has only used lemmy?
lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance.
Submitted 3 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
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drspod@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
All the comments from all cross posts on a single page is great. You can also add your own user flair like you could on Reddit, which lemmy doesn’t support. I haven’t messed with it much yet, but the ability to make lists of communities into feeds also seems really useful.
doctortran@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Votes are private as well.
crimeschneck@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I haven’t used piefed myself but I wouldn’t want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or “reputation” as they call it):
- Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
- People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
- Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.
I also don’t agree with some of the points in their article on “PieFed features for growing healthy communities”.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah I’m not going to move to that either, also private votes seems like it’ll be a nightmare. Good luck combating all but the most obvious vote manipulation.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
That seems aimed to create a very closed echo chamber.
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
The “low quality” thing seems… Kinda bad. If you mostly post in “low-quality” communities you’ll gradually lose karma? That sounds like it’s just punishing people who are more interested in shitposty meme communities.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Well, that doesn’t matter for blåhaj, which disables downvotes, at least
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 months ago
I see what you mean on the growing healthy communities bit.
That plus private votes, nah, I’m good.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 months ago
I find the reputation system good, however it should use percentages instead of points to make it different than what the karma system in Reddit was. People are less likely to farm for upvotes when it can only show 100% max.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
isn’t a low reputation indicator exactly what a troll would want?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,
tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I’m not a coder or an instance host, so don’t ask me what that distinction means, but I’ve anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),
PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you’re going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven’t decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If Voyager adds piefed support I’m definitely jumping over
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I could see it. Lemmy devs are weirdos and I’m not sure they’re the right group to attract and grow a Reddit alternative.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve already created an account on a piefed instance. Planning for the future. I’m sure Voyager will get it sorted.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 months ago
i will create one when EE. is fianlly sunsetted.
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Same here
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Interesting is this a reaction to something I’m unaware of?
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 months ago
I can only speculate, but PieFed seems great for a community like blahaj. It makes it super easy root out disrespectful users.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 months ago
they had problems with transphobia from various lemmy instances, this is a way to limit that.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
nothing that I’m aware of.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Well, lemm.ee shutdown lead some communities to move to Piefed
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Nice to see more Piefed instances popping
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Popping up?
noobface@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They meant pooping
ruud@piefed.world 3 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIwAI05Y1fU