1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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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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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.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 it's well over a year out of date.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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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 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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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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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Is peer tube any good ?
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
All due respect to Mastodon but BlueSky is way more viable right now.
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Should be Lemmy over piefed.
And BlueSky over Mastodon
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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.
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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Piefed seens to have a lot of issues baked into the code
Create a PR and fix it.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
I thought the new TikTok was upscrolled.
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Is peer tube any good ?
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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Should be Lemmy over piefed.
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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Is there a federated version, either in the works or planned? Because otherwise, Stoat is the only option.
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Is there a federated version, either in the works or planned? Because otherwise, Stoat is the only option.
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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Should be Lemmy over piefed.
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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I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.
Hey, hey you.
Get some.
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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.
This is an interesting economics problem. How can a p2p FOSS alternative compete with advertising revenue? The YouTube creators don't even get most of the money, so it wouldn't need to be perfect to be better.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
can anyone eli5 what the difference is from piefed to lemmy? i have a lemmy account, do i have a use for a piefed accnt too?
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Maybe add Matrix as a Discord alternative?
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can anyone eli5 what the difference is from piefed to lemmy? i have a lemmy account, do i have a use for a piefed accnt too?
Its up to you. They are different software but both read lemmy and Piefed communities and instances.
