I was excited when I found out there was a link aggregator (read: I was obsessed with reddit-like forums) that divorced itself from the controversy or the alienating political idealogy of the lemmy developers.
However, other than that, I can’t understand piefed.
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The project seems unorganized. The first google result for “piefed” is the piefed.social instance and not about the project. I had to go to “About” then click on “PieFed” just to get to this link the project page. For lemmy? The first link about lemmy the project is about the project not an instance. Point to lemmy.
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Lemmy uses rust which, like the main devs’ political idealogy, may be polarizing (see Linus vs Rust Devs). Piefed uses, well, python. Yes, there is a learning curve to a new language, but rust is statically and strongly typed whereas python is duck typed. Also, it appears as though pip is one of the tools used in the installation which has been prone to supply chain attacks. Yes, more people know python. But that isn’t necessarily a net positive and I wouldn’t consider that if I were choosing the stack. Another point to lemmy (for me)
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Piefed is on codeberg/forgejo. Lemmy is on github. Point to piefed.
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Piefed doesn’t have controversial devs (supposedly Lemmy does). Point to piefed.
So, as much as I want to like piefed, I’m having trouble really choosing it. Can someone add on why they use piefed over lemmy? I really want to like piefed.
You don’t have to pick only one. Make an account on a piefed instance and try it out. It’s not like it deletes your lemmy accounts when you do.
Though I will say, there’s no good mobile app for piefed. Jerboa makes it point to lemmy.
Voyager, Summit, Blorp and Interstellar work with PieFed and Lemmy. Boost is adding support right now, too.
Mlem mostly works with piefed too. Although the newest piefed update seems to have messed with subscriptions on it.
Yeah, we’re working on a fix for this… because piefed.social runs on the latest changes, we get zero notice when the API is changed. Thankfully piefed.social will be staying on 1.1 until 1.2 comes out, so this should happen less in future :)
I am not blaming you at all! The fact that Mlem went so quickly from, “we are working on some piefed features” to “piefed is working” I was amazed!
Thanks, appreciate it :)
To some extent. The ones I’ve tried don’t seem to use the block lists on my piefed account. I still need to poke around more to see if I can find one that’s usable.
On the bright side, the mobile implementation of the website is surprisingly good. It’s mostly usable as a PWA, which is what I’ve been doing so far.
Edit: It may just take time. After posting this I checked again and Voyager now has my blocked items. The others may as well.
This makes me feel good. I have done quite a bit of reworking the UI to make it more friendly at mobile screen sizes. Thanks!
Any mobile issues I saw seemed mostly tied to PWA being a bit weird. Even those were issues were well-behaved compared to other sites I’ve tried to use as PWA, even on desktop
I thought it was just Interstellar (which is not good) and Voyager was “soon”. My bad. Which one do you recommend?