Comment on Lemmy or Piefed?
Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lemmy.
The PieFed dev has some pretty extreme views and goes out of his way to censor and limit what users can do.
Comment on Lemmy or Piefed?
Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Lemmy.
The PieFed dev has some pretty extreme views and goes out of his way to censor and limit what users can do.
OpenStars@discuss.online 14 hours ago
The Lemmy dev team likewise has pretty extremist views, and notoriously goes much further to censor and limit what uses can do… but crucially, less of that (not fully zero, but less relatively speaking) makes its way into the software.
If you were running your own instance, I would pick PieFed, hands-down with barely any resistance to that personally. Most of the controversial features are even opt-in (rather than opt-out), and such extremely nice onboarding features both for users new to the Threadiverse and those new to installing instances (e.g. the docker container) making setting one up a breeze, especially in comparison. Or there’s the nice PyLova fork that goes even further beyond merely disabling those controversial features by having outright removed them from the code, plus adding a few new features on top.
But if you are using a public instance, I see now that your choice of admin team has far more to do with your ultimate experience than whether it runs Lemmy or PieFed. Quokka even switched from Lemmy to PieFed and I think it was sh.itjust.works that announced that they would do likewise in later 2026. Either way, your admin team decides whether they want to run things in an authoritarian fascist manner, or democratic, or anarchist fashion, and especially if as an end-user you are accessing your instance via a 3rd-party app like Voyager, you will notice such things far more than what software it is running under the hood.