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  • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

    Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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    BruisedMoose
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    I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.

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    • B BruisedMoose

      I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.

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      faintwhenfree@lemmus.org
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      #133

      I'll join you. 😡

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        insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
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        In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon 😭

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        • CoelacanthC Coelacanth

          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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          altphoto@lemmy.today
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          #135

          Looks like there was an update over the weekend. I got to watch this video.

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            hoch@lemmy.world
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            #136

            Here's at least some of the 'feature' list. was about to switch to piefed until I read it.

            https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

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            • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

              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.

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              Xylight‮
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              #137

              Don't link p.lemmy.world. it's well over a year out of date.

              phtn.app probably looks a bit less suspicious, and also lets you use any Lemmy/Piefed instance.

              You could say it as "phtn.app is a web portal for the fediverse" or something like that because the concept of web apps is confusing to many

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              • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

                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

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                colesloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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                I use the the apk called "Thunder" and it does a fantastic job. Much better than just using the website of here or reddit.

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                  Rose
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                  #139

                  As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).

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                  • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

                    Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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                    aoxomoxoa@lemmy.world
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                    #140

                    Is peer tube any good ?

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                    • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

                      Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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                      jali67@lemmy.zip
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                      All due respect to Mastodon but BlueSky is way more viable right now.

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                      • L lofuw@sh.itjust.works

                        Should be Lemmy over piefed.

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                        jali67@lemmy.zip
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                        #142

                        And BlueSky over Mastodon

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                        • Blaze (he/him)B Blaze (he/him)

                          If you believe that the Piefed devs would get away with overriding the configuration of other instances with an update, that's not realistic.

                          Most of the Piefed users (myself included) would leave immediately.

                          What our experience is is the opposite: the Piefed dev team is always receptive to feedback, and improves the software based on this constantly.

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                          mesa
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                          #143

                          It took 2 days for a PR to go though on piefed. It was a great experience.

                          Reading the code is VERY easy, even compared to other projects. I was able to get it up and running in about 30 mins with very little knowledge of the project. The "filters" are all optional on the admin side and instances can and have modified them to suit their needs.

                          Congrats @rimu@piefed.social ! Your project has gained "controversy", the main way you can tell its getting successful 😁.

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                          • C ceebee_eh@lemmy.world

                            Piefed seens to have a lot of issues baked into the code

                            https://lemmy.world/post/42299745

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                            mesa
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                            Create a PR and fix it.

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                            • Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiE Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

                              Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

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                              aceshigh@lemmy.world
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                              #145

                              I thought the new TikTok was upscrolled.

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                              • A aoxomoxoa@lemmy.world

                                Is peer tube any good ?

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                                1984@lemmy.today
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                                No.

                                But mainly because content creators are on YouTube to get audience and a small profit. The technology is fine otherwise.

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                                • L lofuw@sh.itjust.works

                                  Should be Lemmy over piefed.

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                                  1984@lemmy.today
                                  wrote last edited by 1984@lemmy.today
                                  #147

                                  Yeah but this is like when Disney makes star wars tv shows. Ignore what the current audience likes and use the show as a vehicle to try and tell them what they should like.

                                  I didnt think they could do worse than Discovery but the Academy is incredibly bad. On the plus side, Im rewatching Deep Space Nine again.

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                                  • S Skavau

                                    Revolt (now known as Stoat) isn't federated though.

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                                    Lurking Hobbyist🕸️
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                                    Is there a federated version, either in the works or planned? Because otherwise, Stoat is the only option.

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                                    • Lurking Hobbyist🕸️W Lurking Hobbyist🕸️

                                      Is there a federated version, either in the works or planned? Because otherwise, Stoat is the only option.

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                                      Skavau
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                                      No.

                                      Other alternatives are Root, not federated.

                                      There's also Roomy in development which is federated, and will tie into Bluesky.

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                                      • L lofuw@sh.itjust.works

                                        Should be Lemmy over piefed.

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                                        die4ever@retrolemmy.com
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                                        I've seen the Reddit users be more receptive of PieFed over Lemmy. In a post suggesting Lemmy, the Reddit users will just comment that it looks ugly, it's confusing, devs are tankies, etc. Posts suggesting PieFed get less complaints and more signups.

                                        Also I think the instance choice is easier for PieFed compared to Lemmy. If you tell people to use Lemmy, they'll probably end up on lemmy.world which is overpopulated, or lemmy.ml...

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                                        • B BruisedMoose

                                          I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.

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                                          darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works
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                                          Hey, hey you.

                                          Get some.

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