Comment on Lemmy or Piefed?
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 1 day ago
I’m using PieFed at the moment, although its more a matter of avoiding the Lemmy devs’ hate and support of violence.
PieFed is definitely developing faster, and has a host of features Lemmy doesn’t as a result. PieFed has following users, de-duplication of posts, fairs, among other stuff, which Lemmy still lacks. That said, the PieFed dev has some very weird opinions on social media design, so for every new feature, there’s an anti-feature. For example, I love the extra moderation tools, but the voting quota limits the ability for more dedicated users to contribute. Its mostly a dislike of internet culture and those who spend a lot of time online, so PieFed tends to discourage things like memes. All-in-all, I’d say PieFed is better, but if you care about the specific downsides, you can easily disagree.
rimu@piefed.social 1 day ago
The vote quota can be set to whatever the instance admin desires.
afaik only piefed.zip and multiverse.soulism.net have chosen to increase it, though.
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 1 day ago
It can be disabled, but IMO, choosing to leave its default so low is pretty hostile towards your most dedicated users. I know you don’t agree, but as seen by the pushback you received, many dedicated users in the fediverse’s already small userbase were against that design decision. I’m not trying to attack you, and I’d still rather use PieFed than Lemmy, but a user looking to set up shop somewhere will want to know about design philosophies like that, whether it affects them immediately, or is just something they may be concerned about in the future.
rimu@piefed.social 1 day ago
There is a 99% chance it won’t effect them because 99% of people don’t vote more than the quota. I was very careful about that.
ride@piefed.social 1 day ago
Thanks to both of you. In the end if the data backs up what you’re saying then so be it. I’m obnoxious to what the quota is, but I doubt I’d go beyond any quota.