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?
Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781
I have no idea. I’m a vanilla, semi-norm who came from Reddit, mainly because they banned me after 15 years of active and mostly chill engagement.
I’m basically just a slightly opinionated guy who’s interested in what other people have to say on a variety of subjects.
I’m only dimly aware of PieFeed. I like lemmy as it feels like early Reddit and I access it through the boost app on Android, which was the peak Reddit experience before they locked down the APIs.
I’ve no interest in spreading myself over multiple platforms - I just want access to other humans via the path of least resistance.
With this in mind, is PieFace better? And if so, in what way?
Piefed has a bunch of tools Lemmy doesn’t have: Flairs, Hashtags, Custom Feeds (Private and Public), Scheduled Posts, Combined comment sections for crossposts, Emote Reactions, Events, Polls
Most of these will also be available in Lemmy 1.0 soon!
Hello,
Hope you are doing well. Any time-frame (even rough) in mind for Lemmy 1.0 release?
We are currently finishing to implement the last feature community post tags. Once that is done there is still some cleanup and bug fixing to do. Soon after that we will publish the first beta version of 1.0 (likely in February), and ask app devs to start implementing the new API v4. How long the beta phase lasts is hard to say, it depends how many problems pop up.
Thank you for the summary
Interesting…Can you use boost or a similar app with it? Also, how popular is it compared to here in terms of user?
Apps do work with Piefed, but they do not necessarily have all the features Piefed has.
Same here.
I’m new as of today. I joined piefed.zip. I think I’ll do alright here. I’m already on Mastodon.
IMO they’re both good and deserve our weight, I do think they can work off each other.
I use Lemmy because their mobile app support is much better and Jerboa (the Lemmy maintainers’ app) has everything I need and not a single bit more. I think it would be great for Piefed to get more app support.
There are a lot of features that I think Lemmy can benefit from emulating from Piefed, like the option to show comments from crossposted threads, filters, and more granular moderation capability. I heard Piefed is a lot lighter on resources, so if I were to self-host I might use that one. Also I have no idea how many of Lemmy’s shortcomings are due to be addressed in their planned 1.0 release.
Lemmy development is slow whereas Piefed is a bit faster, I think each is great in their own right. Not everyone agrees with me here, but I think the Lemmy developers do a good job keeping their personal beliefs to their own instance, rather than let it infiltrate the code base. Same with Piefed. I think the development of both should be encouraged rather than trying to find rifts and making it a team sport.
and this one:
User vote totals: You can see the total number of upvotes and downvotes given to each user.
people were happy that lemmy does not do this…
- A lot of people on the Threadiverse refuse to donate to Lemmy due to their beliefs, which hinders future growth of the code.
- A lot of people on Reddit or X or Facebook hear about the devs and immediately nope out of the entire Threadiverse, possibly going instead to Bluesky.
So PieFed is great for the health and growth not just of itself but for the entire Threadiverse, imho. And then seeing how well and which features are most popular in PieFed, Lemmy can copy to improve experience on that side. Also as people leave Lemmy - e.g. lemm.ee shutting down was a major event but even more relevant is the overall reduction in number of active users, from ~55k in the peak after Rexodus to only ~35k today - then hopefully PieFed can at least entice some of those who are definitely leaving Lemmy to remain at least in the wider Threadiverse.
That said, as Lemmy moves forward so slowly, increasingly it is going to miss out on an ever-growing share of what that wider Threadiverse offers. e.g. polls and hashtags, neither of which I see mentioned in the planned 1.0 release. Every single post, if Lemmy can render it at all (it can’t for polls) will lack information that only shows on PieFed. And with funding, active user counts, and number of new instances all decreasing… this going to affect Lemmy further. Most of that would have happened anyway regardless of whether PieFed existed though, so again I am glad for the latter since otherwise people would just leave the Threadiverse entirely. e.g. here is one such very interesting irl story: https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed.
that page limit is very bad. essentially makes lemmy posts ephemeral. did we forget that we hated it when reddit did that?
Piefed has some critical features like, non-nsfw blur, flairs, ability to disable notifications from relies on posts and more information is exposed to admins.
we should make a new one and then make a new one again so that the community is split into smaller and smaller pieces with less users and the whole fediverse thing can be less interesting overall
piefed and lemmy users see the same content though
Tell that to the instance admins on lemmy.ml who ban people from communities they’ve never so much as heard of for making offhand comments. Or to Steve Huffman himself who should have done Reddit the “right” way?
Seriously, all FOSS is good. Being able to start up your own instance, either Lemmy or PieFed, is good. The fact that they all communicate together is great.
If PieFed brought an additional 100k content creators to the Threadiverse, that only enhances the user experience, even as viewed narrowly from purely the Lemmy side.
I for one have accounts on both Lemmy and PieFed, and while I use PieFed far more often lately (since it offers far more features that I like?), I do legitimately use both for different purposes. I revel in having options to choose from!:-)
i don’t care about the lemmy.ml drama because im not on there
Right, because you have alternatives to have an account on instead:-). This is an example of where divisiveness can be a good thing - we don’t all have to be on the same instance, or even using the same software, whether Lemmy vs. PieFed vs. Mbin vs. nodeBB vs. flarum (eventually), or Mastodon or Friendica, all of it can be interconnected. I would argue that this makes the Threadiverse a more interesting place to be, actually. Because I definitely would have gotten kicked off of or voluntarily left lemmy.ml long ago, if that were the only option available…
Lemmy, I started with Lemmy and have not seen a reason to move away.
The number one issue with the fediverse in general is the tiny stagnant user base. Everything else is way too insignificant to matter. People could make as many fediverse platforms as they want, it doesn’t mean anything if nobody is using them.
Not so many people use Mastodon, yet they get all excited and flock to Bluesky. It is possible to entice people to join, if they are offered something that they want. They have expressed reasons for not joining, or leaving after joining even for months, perhaps we should try to improve things so that they feel more comfortable being here?
The people who use Mastodon are very different from the people who use Bluesky. The people who use BlueSky are the former unhinged left wing Twitter users of years past that gave the platform it’s notoriety as being the most toxic platform on the internet. When Musk took over, Twitter’s title as the worst platform remained the same, except he shifted the source of the toxicity from being left wing to being right wing. This led the unhinged left wing Twitter users to seek a clone that replicated the toxic environment that they once thrived in, and BlueSky just happened to be the one that lucked out.
The point is that the BlueSky people don’t care about anything outside political tribalism. That’s what drove them out of Twitter and it’s what drove them to BlueSky. That makes them very different from Mastodon users who, for the most part, actually value things like privacy, security, freedom of the internet, ownership, and control. The people who use Mastodon are tech nerds, privacy activist, or niche interest groups that thrive in such a space like the crypto community. I feel like even if we streamlined the process and it easier for people to join, the BlueSky types still wouldn’t have an interest in joining.
Damn, I suspected as much but thanks for confirming. I never created an account so I didn’t know if that would change anything in terms of what I could see was on it but it seems not. The default feed exposed to people without an account never really enticed me to check it routinely.
So where are the reporter types (& comic artists, etc.) then, mostly, other than just straight-up X, or shifting more towards private or public blogs like Substack (which is not federated though its open-source rival Ghost is)? I recognize that it is not a binary yes-no answer, and also that the answer is likely “pretty much just on X”, with a much more extremely minor theme adding “somewhat, inconsistently on Mastodon, despite the fact that their followers are mostly not”. And I cannot fault them too awfully much even for their short-sighted thinking, since they need followers or else they cannot exist, and when Mastodon instances go down I thought there is no way to move followers elsewhere, plus the issue of celebrity impersonation seems to remain still. Mastodon needs to work on those issues if they want people to use it.
Just like Lemmy needs to work on its ability to create at least SOME spaces more free of the toxicity that pervades the entirety of the Threadiverse and causes people to nope out immediately, then complain bitterly about us here over on e.g. r/RedditAlternatives and on Bluesky. I am 100% in agreement with “People could make as many fediverse platforms as they want, it doesn’t mean anything if nobody is using them.”, which is why I am placing my hopes on PieFed to work more quickly to address the main concerns. It has already pretty much entirely solved the content discovery problem, and after expending so much effort on its API to enable 3rd-party apps I hope it gets back to enabling easier moderation features, although it already offers so much - more than Lemmy - in that regard.
That’s actually why I like it better here. On Reddit I would doom scroll endlessly. Here I can take in my rage bait, get into pointless political arguments, and lament humanity’s future, and still get something accomplished that day.
Also lemmy doesn’t have the ‘karma’ system. There’s literally no point to karma farm here. Like, it doesn’t matter if my comments get downvoted to oblivion, it’s not hurting my imaginary score that I have to maintain to interact in certain big subreddits.
As soon as I can microblog straight to my own profile I’m sold. On mbin I had to make an admin only magazine for my microblogs to all be in one place.
Could you describe your problem in more detail?
Microblogs are always associated to your profile. If you want to post something which is not meant for a specific magazine, the
randommagazine is what you need to use. It is a pseudo-magazine (and so not federated as a community) which aggregates all microblog posts which are not attached to a real magazine.Yeah but like. Why not just straight to a profile? That’s what masto does.
What exactly do you mean “to a profile”? Can you give an example of the difference (I never used Mastodon)?
Well tumblr and Twitter are the same way. There are no magazines / subforums / subreddits / individual communities (or weren’t last I used them). Your profile has your posts and people follow other users individually. You can tag your posts but you can use just about as many tags as you want the post isn’t bound to any one tag. The only specific thing they’re bound to is literally just your personal profile (or that of anyone who reblogs / retweets / retoots / reposts it to their own profile). A microblog is literally a completely different format to a forum / message board style post while kbin treats it like a forum post lite. You don’t microblog to an individual community you microblog as yourself to your entire sever (and beyond, if properly federated).
The number one problem with Lemmy (and reddit) is censorship. I hear that piefed makes censorship easier. This seems like a bad thing.
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Censorship is a tool of the state to squelch free expression and prevent uprising.
Moderation is a tool of community to keep dangerous people from harming its members.
Lemmy has moderation, not censorship. And the fact that you’re being moderated is a big old red flag. To wit: I’ve never seen this complaint from anyone outside the right-wing.
Your argument is merely semantic. And then you accuse me.
It’s slimy junk like this.
It’s not semantic in the slightest. It’s a crucial difference. One is a community protecting its members, the other is an oligarchy protecting their power. The fascists have tried to conflate the two in order to further their agenda, and you fell for it.
Lemmy has moderation, not censorship. And the fact that you’re being moderated is a big old red flag. To wit: I’ve never seen this complaint from anyone outside the right-wing.
So you’re unfamiliar with !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works then? Never seen someone banned for having the gall to speak against Stalin or the CCP, or any other wrongthink according to the Marxist-leninists that run .ml, grad, and bear? You must be new here, or agree with that as “moderation not censorship” because you are a tankie too, or have decided to classify Marxist-Leninist tankies as right wing because “left only when good,” or think “right wing is when call out leftists on their bullshit,” I’m just curious which applies.
I just reread my comment, and you know what, I didn’t see a single assertion that moderation couldn’t be weaponized or misused; only that it wasn’t censorship when it was deployed by someone other than the state. But the fact that you immediately reacted with such rage at the implication is maybe an indication that you’ve been moderated for reasons other than just your viewpoint.
Let me be more clear: misusing moderation isn’t censorship, unless you’re doing so at the behest of a government. It’s just misusing moderation.
Tbf, some of them may be doing it at the behest of some government, it just might not be yours.
But really this is a semantic issue when the real outcome is the same: suppression of dissent. You can pretend you just “didn’t mention” abuse of moderation all you want but this being lemmy, it would have been a good idea when it’s such a prevalent problem, so I’m inclined to believe that rather than simply neglecting to mention it, like many others here you possibly support or endorse it. You also employ the often used tactic of calling everyone who considers this “abuse of moderation” a form of censorship “right wing” which just so happens to be on page two of the tankie handbook, so I’m even further inclined to believe that you’re just aligned with them.
But really this is a semantic issue
It’s very much not.
when the real outcome is the same: suppression of dissent.
Is that more common? Or is abuse disguised as dissent more common?
You can pretend you just “didn’t mention” abuse of moderation all you want
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but this being lemmy, it would have been a good idea when it’s such a prevalent problem,
Like I said in my previous comment, seems like you’ve been moderated for reasons other than your viewpoint.
so I’m inclined to believe that rather than simply neglecting to mention it, like many others here you possibly support or endorse it.
Believe what you like. I support communities keeping their members safe.
You also employ the often used tactic of blah blah blah
I’m not interested in your ridiculous ideological turf wars. All I’m interested in is people staying safe.
So many times in the small town I grew up in I heard the argument that says, “we have to have guns so that if there’s a fascist government we can rise up against it! The casualties that come from that are worth it if we can protect our people against the excesses of a tyrannical regime!” And then millions of people die from that right, and then an actual fascist government really does arise, and oops, the gun owners side with the tyrannical regime. I always knew it was nonsense, but seeing the actual results is pretty notable.
In the face of that, “we have to have completely unmoderated spaces so that if a fascist government tries A Censorship we can speak out against it!” sounds pretty familiar. “The casualties that come from that are worth it if we can protect our people against the excesses of a tyrannical regime!” I’ve heard that line before.
EDIT TO ADD:
Tbf, some of them may be doing it at the behest of some government, it just might not be yours.
To be fair, this is a reasonable point to make. I don’t think it’s enough to reconsider the value of moderation, but it is a fair point and worth keeping in mind.
By “abuse disguised as dissent” do you mean it’s abuse to refute tankie propaganda and the bans for doing it (the tankies suppressing it) are then justified? 'Cause…
Like I said in my previous comment, seems like you’ve been moderated for reasons other than your viewpoint.
Like I said in a previous comment, it seems you’re unfamiliar with the entirety of .ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear. Or you support their moderation tactics, and “anyone who dared speak against them must be a right wing troll who deserved it” which coincidentally is what they say any time they ban someone for not praising the CCP or the russians in Ukraine, coincidence? I think not, too many of them around here for that.
By “abuse disguised as dissent” do you mean it’s abuse to refute tankie propaganda and the bans for doing it
No.
Like I said in a previous comment, it seems you’re unfamiliar with the entirety of .ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear.
No. That’s what I mean by misuse of moderation. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t still exist, it means that people shouldn’t be on those instances.
Piefed provides instance owners and admins with more tools to catch bad behaviour, that’s absolutely true.
i’d say it gives tools to moderate based on groupthink
Yes. Rather than creating better tools for censorship and groupthink we should create tools to prevent that.
What are you doing here? Are you trying to re-narrate what I just said? I hate that slimy stuff.
Just confirming. I don’t see that as a bad thing though. The instance tools are designed to make it easier to catch spammers, trolls and AI posts.
Cease the bullshit.
The tools for stopping bad behavior can be used to stop any behavior. And they invariably are and will be used to censor any voice those in power dislike, as we all know.
That’s a fact. There is no good dictatorship.
The tools for stopping bad behavior can be used to stop any behavior.
Not really. Do you know what the tools are specifically? They’re just isolating the behaviour of new users for instance admins to catch tendencies often presented by spammers, trolls, bots and AI posters. There’s nothing baked in that can specifically target a specific group.
There already are various lemmy instances known for partisanship moderation without any specific tools.
someone who only speaks truth to power or just opposes the status quo will almost invariably be downvoted. using those downvotes to identify trolls is just bad practice.
Oh stop greasily prevaricating already.
Legit question: Do you oppose any and all moderation, and quality of life tools to that end for moderators and/or instance admins?
Ever been in truly uncensored online spaces? I have. Know what you very very quickly get lots of? Nazis and child porn. This is not good
I know. Therefore censorship is a tool for both good and bad.
I see a lot of piefed posts on Lemmy - are we not federated across so that we’re getting the milk without needing to buy the cow?
I’m gonna fuckin buy it and milk it and treat it tenderly
I’m going to just fuck it.
It is still important to support the better project, be it with our attention, or with our money/donations. What “better” means here depends on the metric.
Again, in this time and age, specially with everything going on around the world, I would hope that there is more thought about using/buying something.
I mean, I don’t jump from trend to trend, so I’ll support Lemmy until either the project gets depreciated and no more updates happen. I can still see everything because piefed is federated, so why jump from platform to platform every few months? What features really are there that make a difference?
On top of what others have said, I’m going to recommend piefed to my friends when they want to jump in because of the built in on boarding.
From the start it’ll show you and let you pick what topics you might like to see (so sort of like multireddit that groups together similarly themed communities into one feed / group), and shows what you want to filter and partially hide and or outright block posts with certain terms. It just kickstarts someone new so quickly with what they would want to see rather than going to all view and swim through a lot of posts that might turn you off of Lemmy/mbin/piefed.
And like you said Lemmy and piefed still federates with each other so still can leverage the content already existed.
And later on you could create your own topics/grouped communities just like multireddits.
For me I jumped the ship because ever since I got introduced to Lemmy, the knowledge of who the main Lemmy devs are left a really sour aftertaste to everything.
Piefed doesn’t have this baggage and as you say - Lemmy and Piefed can federate so I can still keep connected in the communities. And you can export your Lemmy profile and import to Piefed so the switch is really easy (though saved posts don’t get imported, but oh well).
Sorry, what’s the story with the Lemmy devs?
Transphobic tankies
Long story short, they are supporting and apologetic to various dictatorships, be it past or present. And anybody that disagrees is a Nazi.
You can check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for some examples
Wrongthink
Piefed lists comments from crossposts together, grouped by post, so there is less repetition due to crossposts.
Piefed lets me tag users so I can mark who is a dumbass and not worth replying to, which is nice because I block fewer users and don’t miss out on their posts that are fine because their comments elsewhere are terrible.
The two things I don’t like about piefed is that they don’t have a compact view for image posts and they don’t make the modlog easy to get to or search.
OK, given it a few days… I honestly prefer the formatting of Lemmy quite a bit more. Mostly the inbox, and that I have to turn on dark mode every time, it’s not a profile setting.
Little fixes, but for now, Lemmy is still doing it for me.
Thanks for the rundown. OK, I’ll give it a shot.
My lemmy-client (connect) also shows crosspost comments since a couple weeks.
I consider clients are their own thing since they vary significantly from the lemmy web sites.
Piefed has flairs, custom feeds, events, scheduled posting, hashtags, word filters, emote reactions.
TIL - FINE, I’ll give a try!
It is still important to support the better project
If everyone went to the “best” instance it would crash it…
Like, you do realize the whole “decentralized” thing is why most of us are here, right?
OP is talking about the software all of the instances run on, not the individual servers themselves.
I would say that having a variety of software options also helps keep one party from having too much power, which is the main focus of federation. It’s not as important as having a variety of instances, but we can have both, so why not take advantage of it?
I would say that having a variety of software options also helps keep one party from having too much power
I don’t disagree, but since Mbin, Piefed, and Lemmy are all open-source and interoperable, none of them can ever have any meaningful power no matter which one became dominant, as each project can be forked if they go off the rails or if development from the OG devs stopped (as happened with Kbin, which was forked into Mbin).
As an example, the app ‘Organic Maps’ recently had controversy because the main dev was using donated funds for personal expenses without informing anyone. This caused a lack of trust, and it was just forked into CoMaps instead. That’s the inherent advantage of free and open-source software.
This is not about an instance, it is about a project.
And also, different people have different metrics for what constitutes “best”. Picking what one would think is “best” would not crash an instance. What are you talking about…
It would not crash an instance. What are you talking about…
Ah, someone who wasn’t around for the reddit exodus to Lemmy.
Read the last line in the comment you replied to.
Not really. I think its more like everyone gets free milk but the lemmy milk has tankies in it.
OOooooooh… ok, well that’s a feature not a bug.
God, I hate tankies. I definitely worry about the future of lemmy with how nuts the developers are
I wouldn’t necessarily say I “hate” them but god any sort of interaction is just tedious.
I do have a lot of respect for the lemmy lead dev in that he’s been a pioneer in the fediverse, and lemmy has become a popular opensource project. However, his ideological views are incompatible with mine, and he seems unusually passionate about them.
Yeah I like Lemmy, i donate and have massive respect for the devs that worked hard for years building this software. But their views are disgusting and it will kill Lemmy eventually. We’re to small at the moment to start infighting so I dont worry to much about it. At the moment its more important for people to move away from corporate platforms to free and open platforms.
Why vs when we can just interop?
We are not like traditional websites. When one community does well, we can all do well.
Piefed users comment and post to lemmy and via versa.
Piefed and Lemmy are act-pub/fediverse software systems, same with Mastodon and many others. Since Lemmy and Piefed are so similar in their structure though as link aggregators that people vote and comment on you could think of them as the same network with different clients.
I switched from Lemmy to Piefed somewhere around piefed’s 1.15 version as I recall. On a technical front Piefed is a solid margin ahead in admin and usability features, at least as of when I switched. I haven’t noticed a major performance difference, but mine is a single user instance so that might be better shown at a larger scale. Lemmy was a bit easier to deploy initially since there wasn’t a need to have anything compile locally but rather just pull an image and go.
Ethically, I’m less concerned using Piefed than Lemmy. The devs of Lemmy are notoriously vocal in their support of Russia/China/Korea, and basically anything that could be considered in opposition of western liberal/progressive policies. This is troublesome since there is the potential for updates being made that help create even more aggressively divisive bubbles than we already have in many parts of the fedi. Those could be applied to any software of course, but the Lemmy devs make their stances quite visible in that regard.
There are a lot of tankies on lemmy, but I’ve only seen it on a couple of instances. It’s not worth the time to make common cause with them I’ve learned, they just want to make the cheap point of west bad, not fix anything, their whole point is it can’t be fixed. As if the alternative of getting a one party state would lead to a better outcome. They can’t even have their own opinions or make up their own minds it appears, they need permission from their leaders to even agree on something not already endorsed.
I thought PieFed and Lemmy were one and the same.
I am not savvy on how this place is structured.
This is beautiful. The fediverse has achieved it purpose.
To be so seamless that you can’t tell a difference.
Lemmy and piefed are like different brands of phones. They do the same basic things for communicating with any other phone, but have different features for the user to interact with and different limitations.
Thank you.
Great analogy! Stealing it…
The beauty of open standards!
I switched to piefed to help it grow, although for me the lemmy experience is still superior, due to the difference in clients available for Android.
On Android, the Voyager Lemmy client is better than the Blorp Piefed client.
Since the blorp Dev reads these comments (thanks for making us free software!), here’s my list of features to bring blorp up to parity, from most to least important:
- Choose what type of link to share by default: community link, poster’s link, my instance link, or blorp link, or other… Currently when I want to share something, I have to open it on Voyager to get a link.
- Ability to select text in comments. Voyager has this in the context menu.
- Ability to hide read posts. Blorp has this setting but it doesn’t work. When I open piefed I see old posts, but on Voyager I see fresh stuff.
- Ability to download .webp images. Downloads fail, but I can “share” the file to a file manager and save it that way.
- Put the profile button on the bottom stripe so it is easier to reach.
Do you mind opening a GitHub issue? You can just make a single issue with that checklist. It’s just easier for me to track what needs to be done in GitHub instead of random Lemmy/PieFed comments. PieFed hide read should be an easy fix.
Would you be willing to try Summit? That also supports piefed instances for some time now.
I didn’t know voyager now supports piefed. Have to give it a try some time.
Trying it out, first step change post type to
cardfull!Edit: how do you actually post something? EDIT: it is the … Menu
You can also swipe left for voting and replying… in some views lol
Now that I’m saying it, it has some weirdness to it even though I’ve used it for months.
I thought Voyager supports piefed now?
it does. i am using voyager on piefed right now.
I guess I’m bad at logging in. Thanks.
Hm, perhaps your instance needs to update to a newer version? I notice that it’s on 1.4.6, while Piefed.social is currently running version 1.5.3
EDIT: Ah, nevermind, 1.4.6 is only a couple weeks old! I was thinking of the gap in those releases in relation to Lemmy’s, where that would be a massive difference.
Is voyager updated to the latest release?
I have Voyager 2.43.2 which is the latest on fdroid and also the latest stable release on GitHub. Maybe it is on the blahaj side?
Hm, could be. Very strange it isn’t working for you :\
I can login to blahaj on blorp and summit piefed clients, just not Voyager.
I had to sign up for the experimental bug test version of Voyager to gain access to piefed compatibility, though that was several months ago now; not sure if it’s been added to the main version yet or not. I haven’t had any issues using the experimental version.
It does. The only thing I miss compared to the Lemmy experience is that “auto fill title” does not work yet when link posting. However, most of the PieFed features aren’t integrated into Voyager yet, so it will be similar to the Lemmy experience but you will miss out a lot of PieFed stuff.
Ah, good to know. I’m already pretty happy with the lemmy voyager experience for just passive scrolling, and mostly do anything important (mod actions, longer comments, etc) on desktop anyway, so for me at least, that switch would be pretty seamless. Though hopefully Voyager supports more piefed features in the future!
When I moved from Lemmy to Piefed, I just dumped apps all together. I’ve been using the web version since and it works absolutely fine for my use. Granted, I mostly comment, having only created a few posts ever. So perhaps using built in “share” feature of phone OSs is useful, but besides that, the web version works great.
Piefed Game Changer number 1: Custom feeds, ex:
that way I can look at non-tech non-politics stuff (either few memes or all memes) when I want.
Piefed Game Changer number 2: Scheduled posts. That way when I got free time I can make a bunch of posts and schedule them over the next couple days or weeks.
I still keep a Lemmy account bc a couple things are still easier there. Plus to see what the posts look like to other people.
Basically custom feeds are just a content recommendation algorithm.
See my complaint about the non-existence of Content Recommendation Algorithms on the fediverse today here
It’s not even recommendation, it’s just a way to see the same content (whatever sort you use) but in one view per topic instead of everything altogether.
