1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
And also don't forget to donate to your devs!
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And also don't forget to donate to your devs!
And instance admins!
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I checked out Loops again last week, it's alright but needs more content.
I think it'll get there if it keeps chugging along as it's been doing.It's still in Beta.
I haven't checked it recently because it isn't my content consumption format, but has it really gotten better. If more people join I would really like to recommend it to people like my spouse... But as it was when I tried it, shed nope right out of there.
What I liked was if you shared a loop, they could view it without having an account, but I couldn't view a tiktok when she tried sending me one say last year
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I haven't checked it recently because it isn't my content consumption format, but has it really gotten better. If more people join I would really like to recommend it to people like my spouse... But as it was when I tried it, shed nope right out of there.
What I liked was if you shared a loop, they could view it without having an account, but I couldn't view a tiktok when she tried sending me one say last year
Indeed the TikTok login wall is frustrating
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
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What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
piefed isn't made by tankies
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
The original version of this has Lemmy on there. Why replace with piefed? Could have added instead of replaced.
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What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
piefed has an opinionated dev reimplementing karma and filters for content they don't like right into the application
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What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
Piefed has quite a few features that Lemmy doesn't have:
- multicommunities
- onboarding process asking new joiners what they are into
- crossposts comments consolidation
- communities moderation features
- posts and user flairs
- keyword filters
https://join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy should get there in version 1.0, but they still don't have any precise timeframe for that release, and still need to do some testing https://lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
You might see a few people discrediting Piefed for some optional filters it offers, but all of those filters are configurable by admins and disabled by default: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1005977/piefed-admin-settings-that-allow-to-enable-or-disable-content-filters-they-are-disabled-by
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What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
https://join.piefed.social/features/
And it's not being developed by tankies.
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The original version of this has Lemmy on there. Why replace with piefed? Could have added instead of replaced.
As someone who's trying to regularly promote the Threadiverse on Reddit, most of the potential new joiners are already overwhelmed with having to choose an instance, so adding another choice between two platforms will just stop them even earlier.
Regarding the choice of Piefed, it has quite a few features that Lemmy doesn't have:
- multicommunities
- onboarding process asking new joiners what they are into
- crossposts comments consolidation
- communities moderation features
- posts and user flairs
- keyword filters
https://join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy should get there in version 1.0, but they still don't have any precise timeframe for that release, and still need to do some testing https://lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
You might see a few people discrediting Piefed for some optional filters it offers, but all of those filters are configurable by admins and disabled by default: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1005977/piefed-admin-settings-that-allow-to-enable-or-disable-content-filters-they-are-disabled-by
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What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
PieFed updates faster, is responsive to suggestions and user concerns, has way more features such as polls, topics (groups of communities that can be made by users, helps to browse all comms related to a topic) automated posts, it combines cross-post comments into 1 page, etc.
And the Lemmy devs are transphobes, genocide deniers, support Russia invading Ukraine, etc. so there's an ethical component to people not supporting it through using it.
Because I'm sure "they'll" come and rage here once they see this post I'll pre-empt it and say the dev for PieFed is not perfect, no one is, and they've got some code around minimising meme images and 4chan content based on their personal preferences, but that stuffs all optional and can be turned on or off by the instance admins.
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Piefed has quite a few features that Lemmy doesn't have:
- multicommunities
- onboarding process asking new joiners what they are into
- crossposts comments consolidation
- communities moderation features
- posts and user flairs
- keyword filters
https://join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy should get there in version 1.0, but they still don't have any precise timeframe for that release, and still need to do some testing https://lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
You might see a few people discrediting Piefed for some optional filters it offers, but all of those filters are configurable by admins and disabled by default: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1005977/piefed-admin-settings-that-allow-to-enable-or-disable-content-filters-they-are-disabled-by
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
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The original version of this has Lemmy on there. Why replace with piefed? Could have added instead of replaced.
The Fediverse's biggest onboarding problem is having too many choices that seem important but don't really matter. Namely, which instance to sign up on. Listing two different platforms that do the same thing and even federate with each other would only make it worse. I'm guessing that's why they only listed one.
As for why choose one over the other, I don't have a horse in this race, I'm sure they had their reasons.
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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
Microsoft does not operate on a federated model.
The Piefed devs have no way to change the configuration of other instances.
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What's the difference between Piefed and Lemmy?
Piefed provides sections or slices of the fediverse and often is incorporated with mastodon, whereas Lemmy is a much bigger aspect of the overall fediverse. While everyone is entitled to their option how they approach certain topics, Lemmy's devs have a huge impact on federation protocols, moderation norms, and general user experience across the fediverse!
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
I'm 1 foot out of Reddit
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FTFY
I've tried to promote Lemmy on Reddit in the past, only to be met with people complaining about the really old UI and bad UX, they also complain about tankies.
PieFed doesn't have that bad rep, so I've found it easier to promote, both lead to the Fedivers so either is a win.
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The original version of this has Lemmy on there. Why replace with piefed? Could have added instead of replaced.
I’ve tried to promote Lemmy on Reddit in the past, only to be met with people complaining about the really old UI and bad UX, they also complain about tankies.
PieFed doesn’t have that bad rep, so I’ve found it easier to promote, both lead to the Fedivers so either is a win.
If I make posts promoting Lemmy on reddit it gets a lot of criticism in the comments becose of the above reasons, so I promote PieFed instead.
