So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.
What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?
Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.
On which one should we put our weight?
PieFed all the way. It’s developing at lightning speed, while Lemmy lags behind as the transphobic genocide denying devs beg for donations with in built donation begging banners on all Lemmy instances front pages. Instances are apparently scared to defed from .ml for fear the devs wont support them with help.
Rimu has made some interesting choices, such as blocking 196 from default federating posts until a user subs first or a dislike for meme subs. But when spoken to has been receptive and removed such things or made them optional for admins.
Ethically and feature wise PieFed is in the lead, its not perfect but its open to change and receptive to ideas
If anyone says it doesn’t matter, it does. Piefed will drop comments for multiple reasons, worst IMO is because someone has blocked someone or an instance, resulting in the entire instance (the blockers) being unable to see any reply from that person or instance to the blocker. An entire conversation can be happening, and you cannot see it. You cannot choose to see it, and unlike instance defederations where you can go to /instances and see which instances are blocked, you have no such way of knowing it.
Even worse, as far as I understand, if someone replies to a blocker in a community on the blockers instance, no other instance will know of the comment.
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