Is just the same as lemmy? What makes it different? Is it similar to kbin? Why is it meant to be better according so some people?

  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    So I created an account over on piefed.social and was browsing by /all and saw some communities I have no interest in ever seeing. I navigate through to the community and there’s no “block community” function? How am I to browse by /all as is my wont, without seeing furry porn? Nothing wrong with it but it’s just not my jam.

    Honestly /all is the best way to find new active communities to join and it’s worked here at Lemmy just fine. Or maybe I missed the button on piefed, or devs are adding it as you read this.

      • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I looked again, if it’s on there it’s very well hidden. I’m using the website btw, maybe the app has it more easy to access.

        Edit: I looked in the settings menu and you can block communities through there but ideally for me there be a way to do it from the page of the community itself.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
    9·
    16 hours ago

    You’ll get a negative social credit score if you join PieFed and ditch lemmy

  • zoey@lemmy.librebun.comEnglish
    71·
    2 days ago

    https://join.piefed.social/features/

    Differences between Lemmy and PieFed

    • Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
    • Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
    • Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
    • 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.
    • Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
    • Keyboard shortcuts.
    • Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
    • Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
    • Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
    • Voting is private.
    • See also features for healthy communities.
    • Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo
    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
      91·
      17 hours ago

      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.

      I think any kind of reputation score should be community specific. There are users whose commenting style fits one community but not another, and their overall reputation should be understood in the context of which communities actually like them rather than some kind of global average.

      • dil@lemmy.zip
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Id say I say some controversial things yet I still somehow on average go positive karma wise, you have to be straight up hateful and ignorant on purpose to go negative imo

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
      11·
      22 hours ago

      How exactly does the private vote thing work? I thought votes being federated was inherent to the way the fediverse is designed.

      • howrar@lemmy.ca
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip
      15·
      1 day ago

      Hide all posts based on keyword filters.

      I’m very interested in this. I’m kinda stunned that lemmy doesn’t do this natively.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      181·
      1 day ago

      Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.

      I don’t particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it’s better for it, all things considered.

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        No, admins designate it.

        Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.

      • zoey@lemmy.librebun.comEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        I have no idea! I’m already hosting Lemmy so I don’t really see the point personally.
        Just thought I’d look it up for OP.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 day ago

        I seriously doubt it because I’m pretty sure the point is to remove the ability for bot accounts and spammers/etc from farming up some karma to appear more legit for their nefarious/spamming purposes.

        • ccunning@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 day ago

          I think either way could possibly be exploited.

          And putting all that aside, I think all image-centric subs should probably be included. It’s just as easy to farm karma with cute cats and flowers as it is with memes.

          • tpyo@lemmy.world
            3·
            16 hours ago

            Excluding OC communities, right? Like you’re not discounting people who put a lot of time and effort into their photography? Or even if they’re not great photographers sharing pictures of their plants and gardens and hobbies, and pets, should have the same allowances as text only posts

            • ccunning@lemmy.world
              3·
              14 hours ago

              This is a great comment; my initial reaction was “No because it would be easy to claim others OC was your own” but then the same could be said about text or link contributions.

              Then I thought “well maybe reputation should only be based on comments” but that could be unfair to those who primarily post vs comment.

              So now I don’t know what my position is. The best method is probably a blend of multiple strategies that can only be determined by engaging with the enemy.

              tl;dr: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

              • tpyo@lemmy.world
                2·
                7 hours ago

                I appreciate this!

                Generally oc forward subs are very stringent about it truly being OC and if caught posting something that isn’t theirs will face consequences

                Blurry pics of a cat’s right up on the lens is low effort. Any pictures you see posted in a place like https://lemmy.world/c/astrophotography will not be low effort because those are removed. They also require the submissions to be OC

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      I’m not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of https://piefed.social/ without what looks like creating an account and logging in. Is account creation and login required to interact with piefed at all? No anonymous reading?

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
    371·
    23 hours ago

    Others have covered most.

    For me the one killer feature is grouping of duplicate articles over multiple instances into one post, with comments from all instances listed therein.

    This takes away the ghost town feeling of Lemmy, and the frustration of seeing the same post multiple times while scrolling.

    The one bad thing is we can’t upload images to posts or comments, so it’s several steps forward, one step backwards.

    Edit: you can post images if you’re using Summit on Android, just can’t seem to do it via the PWA / Web version.

  • stinerman@midwest.socialEnglish
    131·
    2 days ago

    It is similar to Lemmy in that it’s also a link aggregation platform. What makes it different is that it is created by different people using different code and has different priorities. But the same basic features are present.

    I can’t speak to why it might be better than Lemmy because I don’t use it. Maybe some people think it’s better because of the features it offers. Maybe others don’t like the Lemmy devs and prefer supporting a different application. There are lots of possible reasons.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    To some degree they are just web frontends to the backend technology. kbin was done by this guy earnest which had a feel I just liked better but something happened with him and the fork mbin is the only real option now which is fine but earnest seemed to have a vision that did not come to complete fruition, I did not use lemmy much but when I compared the two I went with kbin. Was on mbin when kbin blew up but piefed came along and eventually I tried it. Its main thing is it has these topics where it nests communities. So I can browse the topic comics which has a bunch of communities where people post comics in it. Its handy. I really like some of the nice options like I can block on keywords and allow nsfw to show (I swear some people tag pictures with it because its showing to much ankle. ok that was an exaggeration but man peoples ideas of what is not safe I think is a super broad spectrum and im not really concerned about nsfw) in your feed without blurring and another than will sorta darken bot submissions a bit so you can tell when scrolling. Now all this is because its been super active with development so it can bit a bit wonky. when scrolling I see this thing where text overlaps and messes things up but ultimately its a minor nuissance and I can scroll up or down to get what I want and the other things are so useful plus I can see more is to come so seems to be the most likely to keep on getting better. Anyway that is why I cam where I currently am. Its gotten a spike in popularity too which caused it to be sorta offline for a bit a week or so back but it was pretty short and they got things going. I can tell you anyone used to earnest with kbin will think nothing of that (kbin was legendary with its downtime). So if you want more stability go with lemmy/mbin but if you want more features go with piefed. Keep in mind stability is mostly about instances so a particular lemmy or mbin could be more or less stable. Anyway I like features.

  • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip
    51·
    2 days ago

    I’d be inclined to check it out but it looks like they don’t have a mobile app I can use. Lemmy at least has a few different feature robust apps you can use to access Lemmy. I might check it out when I’m on desktop, but that would be a fraction of the amount of time I spend online.