OpenStars
Compassion >~ Thought
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To be fair, the entire workflow of using PieFed is different than using Lemmy. It took me a whole week to switch, and much longer than that to refine my processes.
Like one thing you can do on PieFed, but not on Lemmy, is to ask for Notifications to be sent to you. For posts, for comments, for entire communities, for users, almost anything you want (okay so not an entire instance, that would be insane!:-) - and you can even stop receiving notifications for your own content as well, which is a HUGE advantage over Lemmy. I almost left Lemmy entirely when people from Hexbear and Lemmygrad kept pinging me for WEEKS and WEEKS on end, long after I ceased responding. To be fair that’s kinda what those communities do, but I did not know that at the time, and when browsing posts via All there is no way to see the community side-bar. Lemmy offers a TERRIBLE experience to someone who doesn’t already know how things work on the Threadiverse.:-( Btw, PieFed shows the community side-bar below every single post.:-) Anyway, for a community that is rarely posted to, or that you moderate, this is a great way to stay abreast of every single post.
Another difference is that on Lemmy, in order to find enough content I mostly browsed All, which meant that I had to constantly block communities that I had no interest in - like sports, individual geographic locations, etc. And that process never ends. I suppose the Threadiverse has gotten bigger over the last year so I’m not sure if that’s as big a deal as it used to be. Anyway, PieFed walks a new user through signing up to many communities, but more importantly the categories of communities allow for a continual viewing of so much more besides.
I want to be clear there: PieFed made my “Subscribed” feed actually usable, bc I can now do things like block content from e.g. c/news, yet still see anytime I want. I’m saying that I can both have my cake and also eat it too!
I too used to prefer the Lemmy UI. But now that I see what PieFed is offering that Lemmy never will, I don’t anymore.:-)
(Mostly, although I do miss certain things like seeing both up and downvotes listed separately - but PieFed is changing all the time and also app support is being added, plus the devs are extremely responsive, so if that or any feature is really something that people wanted, it would be prioritized and created very very quickly!:-)
They both offer advantages that the other does not. The funny thing is that for PieFed, the advantages tend to be “features not available on Lemmy”, while for Lemmy it’s “having to change away from what I was already used to”, which is going to forcibly be changed out from under you regardless, the next time a major UI update occurs and your instance upgrades to it.
I almost want to dare you to just make a PieFed account and play with it for an hour… except you might be better to wait, given the high likelihood that you’ll be strongly tempted to switch:-).
In truth, I fall back to my Discuss.Online account often, in order to use the search function, which on PieFed is pretty lackluster. Then again, the rest of the 99.9% of the time I use my PieFed main, so there’s that:-).
Interstellar is the only app I am aware of that currently offers official support - isn’t that available on iOS?
There is also a fork of Thunder being tested, though afaik not officially released yet, as in available to download from the App Store.
After that, I would think that any open source app should quickly gain support for it.
Here’s a fantastic secret: eventually you can.
Telling yourself that you are a people too might help (it did not me) but also, you cannot help others until you take care of yourself first. It’s worth exploring that thought further as to why you behave that way - especially since there could be several potential reasons, as everyone is not the same cookie cutter personality. It’s okay to be different - it’s far less than okay to not be able to get stuff done in a world that demands it.
Standard disclaimer I’m no psychologist, so what do I know, really? I just wanted to encourage you that it can be different than it is now.
Except they already said that the same issue will occur with the backup name as well. Unless the additional time allows the original owner to finally reregister it this time, as they (reportedly) claimed to be ready to do for the main one as well. I think they don’t trust them anymore:-).
So everyone might move, then have to move again a second time. Not joking btw!:-)
Is it weird that I feel bad for them? Whoever is to blame, a lot of the users are innocent of this. And are also trolls, true, but even so… It would be nice if some people would learn from this that online trolling is one thing, but eventually it’s even better to wake up and live in the real world. I want that for them.
Yeah PieFed lacks a lot of basic polish (e.g. neither user tagging like @[email protected] nor a post/comment preview ability have been implemented yet) while on the other hand there are so many cool features that already exist, above and beyond what Lemmy offers (like custom blocking of all users on an instance, and categories of communities helping guide new users into subscriptions). Plus with it being written in Python rather than Rust it should catch up fairly quickly in what it does lack, even though again in other ways it’s already ahead.
Also I’ve noticed that I am almost never downvoted (maybe once or twice on >400 comments so far) since I switched. It’s highly relevant that unlike my previous instance discuss.online and before that startrek.website, piefed.social has defederated entirely from hexbear.net. People have even commented like “I’m sorry you are getting piled on”, but I have to go to another instance to even see it. It’s fucking beautiful 😍 - PieFed actually offers the ability to block spam while accessing Lemmy content!!! ❤️
You can do it now in PieFed, or some apps like Sync or Connect. Otherwise you can only block communities but not all users from an instance, short of becoming an admin yourself or moving to one that has done what you wanted to see done. More details in [email protected].
I doubt we’ll ever see it in Lemmy proper, especially as the protections that were offered in the past took so long to arrive and then were subsequently rolled back to become weaker - it’s just not a priority for the admins who constantly ban others at the drop of a hat, but don’t seem to want to build tools that allow the reverse.
Thank you, that looks to like my fault in making a bad link. The exclamation point is supposed to indicate that a URL is an image to be rendered and then the text inside is the alternate text. PieFed, my Discuss.Online alt, and lemm.ee as a guest render that comment as just the alternative text for me in Firefox on Android, bc no image loads for it when it tries, but Chrome puts in that broken image indicator alerting people that no image was found when it attempted to look, which is helpful:-).
A proper linking: News and Politics.