I’ve seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,

  1. What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I’m more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).

  2. Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?

  3. Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?

  4. What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, “the website is the app” is not how I like to do it

  5. Any other questions you think I should be asking?

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    It’s much better at federation than Lemmy.

    But the coolest thing is that it does not need to be a competition. Both platforms can do good in the federation.

    But if you want to give it a try Piefed.social

    • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      It’s much better at federation than Lemmy.

      Do you have an example or source for what this means? Like is it faster/more efficient to propagate things, more featureful in what it federates, etc.?

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Peertube channels seem to have real issues on Lemmy. They fixed the links earlier in the year…then it broke again. That’s just one instance.

        Piefed works out of the box and if you upvote, it shows up on the peertube instance. Comments as well. Take a look at !peertube@lemmy.world on both lemmy.world and piefed.social. you can see the difference when clicking on someone’s account.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      8 hours ago

      But the coolest thing is that it does not need to be a competition. Both platforms can do good in the federation.

      100% agreed, I’d even go further and say that having a diversity of systems makes for a more resilient ActivityPub ecosystem. It’s not only non-competitive, it’s inherently cooperative.

      The fact that PieFed and Lemmy work interchangeably with each other is wonderful, and that plus the fact that I’m lazy means I’m probably going to keep primarily going through lemmy.world for now, but I’m definitely going to keep thinking about it and checking up on it.