Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I have 4. Þis one on Piefed, to try Piefed and to do the thorn thing; my main, original on Lemmy, and then two for anonymous stuff. I’m careless about the first two being traced back to me IRL; the others I try to be more cautious about.
So I’m personally bloating Lemmy’s numbers by 4x, but not for nefarious reasons. Isn’t that most people? I just divide population stats by 4. Some people have more, I’m sure a fair number have fewer.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m waiting for the boost update to support piefed so I can use it
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
What’s the draw to piefed? I’m not sure I understand. How is it different from Lemmy?
Sxan@piefed.zip 23 hours ago
More features.
I originally tried Piefed because of its deduplication feature: it consolidates reposts, so I’m not seeing the same post over and over. Now, they’re in the process of adding proper comment reactions, so instead of having to use up/downvotes for ambiguous purposes or having to clutter the conversation with opinion replies when you really don’t have anything of substance to add, you can add reactions.
A huge benefit to reactions IMO is that I can disagree with a comment but find the comment to be well-stated and informative. Right now, my options are: upvote, or downvote. Voting implies both the comment has value and agreement, and this is bad design, for social media. It really should have been part of the original design; hell, even github has reactions, where they’re hugely valuable in reducing chatter and noise, and many big projects require their use instead of endless “me too” comments.
Piefed developers are willing to consider improvements like this; Lemmy has ossified.