Something to help people lead to the Fediverse
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Yes, there is a compact mode in the user settings. It looks a lot like old.reddit. You can see it in action at http://retro.piefed.com/ but it can be used on any instance.
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looking at their Github they're still very active in development! If you want to follow their news !mbinReleases@gehirneimer.de
Cool, thanks!
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I don't see how those things in total make it like Reddit. For one, Reddit is overrun by AI slop in many areas. Piefed actively tries to mitigate it.
Sure, but going down this list, most seems arbitrary and not based on data to mitigate slop bots.
Social credit scores are why I bailed on reddit. Not karma, but their "Contributor quality score" that demands people grind comments to keep the account alive.
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Has anyone tried Pleroma or Misskey who can share their experience/opinion?
Just trying to get an idea of what's out there.
Well, pleroma is kind of like a blend between 2010 imageboards and mastodon, it's kinda small and nice depending on which instance you are. Its used by a lot of personal website thanks to its low weight, and is popular among small independant web creators. You'll rarely see instance with more than 100 users. Biggest one i've found is https://udongein.xyz/ .
Misskey is more or less the same thing, but mainly focused on a japanese audience from what i've seen, with a flashy DUI and a large focus on user customisation with profile picture stickers, statuses, colored fonts, badges, and custom emojis. Biggest misskey instance i've found is misskey.io .
Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world (except misskey on some cases for... japanese reasons). Their smallness also tend to favor circlejerking behavior, but i guess that's an inner principle of the world wide web. They are worth the try.
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Some additional features that PieFed has:
- You can create posts with polls.
- Crossposts shows comments from everywhere that something is crossposted to (organized into their own sections)
- Feeds for combining multiple communities into one.
- You can blur images with spoiler tags instead of having to use NSFW.
- You can tag posts and then filter down posts based on those tags within a community.
- You can set a time/date for when something gets posted.
That's just what I can think of off the top of my head. Otherwise a more complete list can be found here:
https://join.piefed.social/features/All communities with the word ‘meme’ in the name are automatically flagged as low quality but admins can override this on a case-by-case basis.
ok you got me interested
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Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.
wait what? I might not have the whole lore but this reads as "communism" is not allowed. I guess that's a feature for some people.
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Well, pleroma is kind of like a blend between 2010 imageboards and mastodon, it's kinda small and nice depending on which instance you are. Its used by a lot of personal website thanks to its low weight, and is popular among small independant web creators. You'll rarely see instance with more than 100 users. Biggest one i've found is https://udongein.xyz/ .
Misskey is more or less the same thing, but mainly focused on a japanese audience from what i've seen, with a flashy DUI and a large focus on user customisation with profile picture stickers, statuses, colored fonts, badges, and custom emojis. Biggest misskey instance i've found is misskey.io .
Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world (except misskey on some cases for... japanese reasons). Their smallness also tend to favor circlejerking behavior, but i guess that's an inner principle of the world wide web. They are worth the try.
That's interesting, thanks!
Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world
That's okay, because those niches seem already filled on the fediverse anyway. I was mostly curious because it seems most of the social media formats have alternatives on the fediverse, except for the classic facebook/myspace where it was originally mostly about keeping up with friends and people you know in real life, joining interest groups, buying/selling used items on marketplace, etc.
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The two devs Nutomic and Deslanies are pro-Russia anti-Ukraine tankies.
One has a GitHub where he posts all his mind numbing theory and goes on about how the Uyghurs aren’t undergoing a genocide or Tiananmen Square never happened.
The other has been caught multiple times making transphobic comments and just generally not giving a shit if transgender people are victims.
Together with some other equally bad people they make up a trio of instances commonly referred to as the “tankie triad” (lemmygrad.ml, Lemmy.ml, and Hexbear.net) where they ban everyone who says critical things about Russia/China and generally push propaganda.
So stay away from the “tankie triad” (lemmygrad.ml, Lemmy.ml, and Hexbear.net)
Gotcha
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The com run by an outright fascist?
Well, you know what they say about liberals and fascism.
MoG isn't fascist or liberal. It's a community that exists to highlight Tankies and their extremism.
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checks the age of peertube and the almost complete lack of interesting content
is it gonna start soon? It's almost a decade old and there's nothing interesting at all outside of a couple Linux people.
I totally get your point. I want to like it too, but so far the only channels that I've found worth following are Veronica Explains and The Linux Experiment, and even then, Veronica doesn't post very often. I was also following a comics channel but they faded away.
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I totally get your point. I want to like it too, but so far the only channels that I've found worth following are Veronica Explains and The Linux Experiment, and even then, Veronica doesn't post very often. I was also following a comics channel but they faded away.
Recording, Editing and Posting video is exhausting. Assume that you get your donations in order from whatever service, you can then post it on yourube and get a extra pittance, or post it on peertube and get nothing, you'll have to have some other reason to give up the pittance.
Hell, there's more non-rightwing content on odysee than there is on peertube.
