1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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What's the difference between Lemmy and piefed, and why should be choose one over the other?
To users they're both mostly the same but PieFed has more features and a much better UX, so it's the one I choose to promote.
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PipePipe has never let me down yet. In case you still need to interact with YouTube.
It started to just error out on every video. Some people suggest to revert a couple of versions. But I simply gave up. There's no anything there that I need.
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To users they're both mostly the same but PieFed has more features and a much better UX, so it's the one I choose to promote.
But how does one switch from Lemmy to Piefed?
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Should be Lemmy over piefed.
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And instance admins!
I recommend hosting yourself to see exactly what "admins" have to go through.
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It started to just error out on every video. Some people suggest to revert a couple of versions. But I simply gave up. There's no anything there that I need.
PipePipe is a fork of NewPipe, with more and better features (like built in SponsorBlock). I was watching videos on it just an hour ago.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
What in the world is piefed? Lemmy is superior to Reddit.
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Too much friction, and that's really bad UX.
And now you have to explain to people why the default UI sucks.
I tried to promote https://p.lemmy.world to people, and they tell me to get lost with that dodgy virus link.That's just fine. Don't worry yourself too much. I don't know about everyone else, but I only want the people open to making a switch here. If you're so put off by trying something new that you aren't willing to give it a chance, then I'm not going to be begging for you to join my community.
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All the proposed services/technologies would benefit the wider consumer base and the user but switching is too big an ask for many people. We need to encourage people into using "as well as" the global defaults. That will build the network effects that lower the cost of fully switching
An easier and bigger immediate impact would come from people replacing Chrome and google search with respectful alternatives, and/or replacing gmail or outlook with private services like proton or tuta.
Starve the surveillance machines a little bit.Look, I'm looking at reddit posts about niche stuff like a fiend. But when I make a post, I always go here first
I've switched, but I haven't stopped searching old reddit posts. The cache of information is just too rich to pass up.
It's all about mindset. I'm all in fediverse, despite actually using reddit sometimes. Switching doesn't mean blocking the entire website
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But how does one switch from Lemmy to Piefed?
You can register on a Piefed instance and use Lemmy's subscription export feature and Piefed's import feature to retain your subscriptions. Porting comments/posts isn't a thing.
There's work underway creating migration scripts for Lemmy databases to be imported to Piefed, but that is a tool for instance administrators only, of course.
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But how does one switch from Lemmy to Piefed?
You create a new account on a Piefed instance. There’s a lot to choose from like Piefed.social, piefed.ca, piefed.blahaj.zone, etc
Theres a lot of animosity right now between some Piefed and Lemmy users for some reason. I use both, I dunno why people are picking this fight right now, it seems pretty fucking dumb to me.
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I used Lemmy for months, mostly in the browser and my UX was absolutely horrible.
The default browser UI sucks.
I had to try many different settings and eventually through a lot of effort found the Photon UI, which is nice.
The vast majority of users just won't go through that effort. PieFed's default UI is quite clean and modern and much nicer to use, which is why I promote it instead
I used Lemmy for months, mostly in the browser and my UX was absolutely horrible.
The default browser UI sucks.
How long ago? It was a bit flaky a couple of years ago but for me now it's perfect - like Reddit UI before it enshittified.
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Piefed seens to have a lot of issues baked into the code
That looks like one very specific issue rather than a lot of issues of something to really worry about.
Personally I haven't noticed had any issues uploading images for posts.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
There doesn't need to be a replacement for everything. How much does the world need to revolve around a random person's hot-take in 140 characters or as many seconds. These are artificial walls.
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Most of them have Patreon for that, which actually produces income.
What's the incentive? All they would be doing is pushing views away from platforms where having viewers actually benefits them, either through metrics or income or both.
Linux Weekly News already has a channel in YT and the same channel¹ in PT, with a sponsor (Tuxedo Computers).
¹ the same videos uploaded in both places.
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There doesn't need to be a replacement for everything. How much does the world need to revolve around a random person's hot-take in 140 characters or as many seconds. These are artificial walls.
So uh, you joined lemmy why then?
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!
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The fact these filters exist in the first place are not a good sign. When Microsoft introduces new shitware that is "disabled by default" people are skeptical that it might not be disabled for long, but when a fediverse dev does it to block content they personally don't like it's fine? This goes against the entire concept of the fediverse imho. Just block people you don't like yourself
I specifically chose my instance by what content they did and didn't choose to block. I turned away from several otherwise appealing instances because they didn't block some of the content I would've wanted them to. I know I can do it myself, and I do when I need to, but I want an instance that aligns with my interests enough that I don't have to worry about blocking every problematic group as they pop up. If something changes and the instance ends up blocking things I wouldn't want blocked, I move to another instance. It's as easy as moving to another seat on the bus - barely an inconvenience.
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I joined because I got banned from Reddit. Unjustly I claim.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
