What is piefed?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨florge@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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?

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sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
join.piefed.social/features/

Differences between Lemmy and PieFed

Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.

Communities are organized into topics. See piefed.social/topics.

Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like 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
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- ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
  
  Is this self-designated?
  
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  - sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, admins designate it.
    
    Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.
    
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  - MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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- Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)
    
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- GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The Voyager client can do that. I use it a lot!
    
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  - Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I can tell you it’s life changing
    
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- GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Time for another fork… sigh…
    
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  - dil@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
    
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- Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How exactly does the private vote thing work? I thought votes being federated was inherent to the way the fediverse is designed.
  
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  - howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn’t federate the actual account that cast the vote.
    
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.
    
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- partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m not able to see any content behind those links or even the root site of 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?
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is a temporary measure to reduce load on the server from AI scrapers.
    
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  - sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Same here, so I’d assume so.
    
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  - Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    !lego@piefed.social is an example of Piefed commmunity
    
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  - Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Also @rimu@piefed.social , is the login wall new?
    
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- AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This might need updating, I think the private voting feature was removed?
  
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  - Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Indeed, I raised to Rimu to review that page
    
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- tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t like the fact that users receive a banner next to their name if they get downvoted a lot. This makes other people judge negatively the comment even before reading it. I think it also encourage people to keep downvoting and discourages to upvote (as what happens with mass down votes of a comment on Reddit just for the sake of doing so)
  
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  - rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This only effects about 3.5% of accounts.
    
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- PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sounds neat
  
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- rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lots more at https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-overview
  
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BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 istances 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.

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- ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Does it also suppress inline images from others? Because that sounds real nice
  
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- xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I love this feature
  
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You’ll get a negative social credit score if you join PieFed and ditch lemmy

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stinerman@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “Hey, lardass: Chow down, wide load!”
  
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frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’d be more 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.

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- Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Voyager works with PieFed now
  
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  - frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What???
    
    Wow, I’m surprised that’s not the top Google result or App Store result for PieFed.
    
    I wrote my comment on the Voyager app too lmao.
    
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  - Schwim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Image
    
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- sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  These Lemmy apps have added PieFed integration:
  - Blorp
  - Summit
  
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  - frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They really got to make this more well known. The top search results didn’t list those apps either for being PieFed integrated.
    
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- Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Boost support is coming. I’m waiting for that before I switch.
  
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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Neondragon25@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Been using Piefed on the Interstellar app, its pretty nice. As other have said, the collecting of seemingly duplicate posts into one is great. Overall it doesn't feel much different on an average use case.

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- neondragon25@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But I also have a lemmy.today. Because I was on Lemm.ee, but that died, sadly.
  
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  - neondragon25@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And a Lemmy.zip, as I was on Kbin, back in the day, but that also went down. So I diversified my Fedifolio. I also use the Boost app, and Voyager, just in case any of those apps go down.
    
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Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You probably missed it. I remember having to look for a minute before I found the block community button when I tried it out.
  
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  - Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i thought it was a dessert enthusiast community

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- rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  pls join !pies@piefed.social
  
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