PieFed user surge continues! 🚀
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I just signed up for lemmy (brand new here). Can someone help explain piefed? I looked it up and it seems it used the same protocalls? I downloaded voyager app to use Lemmy - do I need to do something else to use piefed? I'm sort of confused, because a cursory search sounds like piefed works on voyager as well. . . If I'm already on Lemmy, am I basically also on piefed, just a different instance?
Sorry, hopefully someone who is smarter can eli5?
Same protocol, yes, so they share all the same content. And a lot of apps originally built for Lemmy now work with PieFed too. Voyager is one of them so if you have an account on a PieFed server/instance you can just add that to Voyager.
When using a mobile app there's not much difference for the average person. But PieFed instances have a lot of mod and admin tools which will tend to improve the quality of the content and people you come across, if that's how the server admins want to make it. https://join.piefed.social/features
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Piefed is also a part of the Fediverse, and reads Lemmy instances. Lemmy.zip also has a Piefed server at http://piefed.zip.
So essentially it's just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I'm not sure what I would actually get different).
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Same protocol, yes, so they share all the same content. And a lot of apps originally built for Lemmy now work with PieFed too. Voyager is one of them so if you have an account on a PieFed server/instance you can just add that to Voyager.
When using a mobile app there's not much difference for the average person. But PieFed instances have a lot of mod and admin tools which will tend to improve the quality of the content and people you come across, if that's how the server admins want to make it. https://join.piefed.social/features
Ah, ok. This clears it up a bit. So it's moreso about the communities that are hosted on a piefed instance - as they have better moderation tools.
Thanks!
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So essentially it's just another instance? Do I need to create an account on a piefed instance to get the benefits of piefed vs Lemmy (which I'm not sure what I would actually get different).
Yes, you would
Currently Piefed has tools lemmy doesn't: emote reactions, flairs, hashtags, polls, events, scheduled posts, feeds
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It's actually going up even faster!!
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Yes, you would
Currently Piefed has tools lemmy doesn't: emote reactions, flairs, hashtags, polls, events, scheduled posts, feeds
So we don't see posts from piefed in here?
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So we don't see posts from piefed in here?
No, you do. You are commenting on a piefed post to a piefed user.
You just don't get all the extra bits I mentioned
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If by "direct traffic" you mean to send them there, then I'd say we don't need that, and shouldn't want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you're on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don't send new people there.
A small instance isn't going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.
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A small instance isn't going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.
People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don't understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won't stop when an instance gets too large.
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People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don't understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won't stop when an instance gets too large.
Well yeah but those aren't the people reading this thread
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Well yeah but those aren't the people reading this thread
I don't know. I wouldn't be so sure. It's a good idea to spread the message anywhere.
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Oh no... Some of that might be bots.
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Oh no... Some of that might be bots.
Bots sign up anyway. This is driven by effective advertisement on Reddit.
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No, you do. You are commenting on a piefed post to a piefed user.
You just don't get all the extra bits I mentioned
Ah ok. I can live with that
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Same protocol, yes, so they share all the same content. And a lot of apps originally built for Lemmy now work with PieFed too. Voyager is one of them so if you have an account on a PieFed server/instance you can just add that to Voyager.
When using a mobile app there's not much difference for the average person. But PieFed instances have a lot of mod and admin tools which will tend to improve the quality of the content and people you come across, if that's how the server admins want to make it. https://join.piefed.social/features
Honest question here. Since it's all the same stuff... why do I as a fediverse user care about piefed if it's basically an admin toolbox?
It's cool admins have good tools to minimize workload., but beyond that?
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Honest question here. Since it's all the same stuff... why do I as a fediverse user care about piefed if it's basically an admin toolbox?
It's cool admins have good tools to minimize workload., but beyond that?
Try it for 5 minutes.
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Try what? And how?
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Try what? And how?
PieFed. Just make an account and follow the onboarding. You'll start noticing differences immediately.
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PieFed. Just make an account and follow the onboarding. You'll start noticing differences immediately.
Ok. But once I'm in will I see the same content as on Lemmy?
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Ok. But once I'm in will I see the same content as on Lemmy?
Yep. You can export your settings from Lemmy and import then into your PieFed account, so all your community memberships and blocks will be replicated.
Registration is currently closed on piefed.social due to a DDoS so try any other.
