I’ve seen people bring this up as another federated aggregator just recently, and I have a few questions,

  1. What advantages/disadvantages does it have over Lemmy? I’m more interested in user experience stuff (I have PTSD from moderating a community on reddit years ago and way too little free time to be an admin), but the technical stuff is interesting (even if I only like 40% understand it).

  2. Can I see and interact with PieFed instances and communities from a federated Lemmy instance? What about the other way around?

  3. Is there a way for people to migrate an account from Lemmy to PieFed? What about the other way around?

  4. What android app options are available for PieFed? Sorry, “the website is the app” is not how I like to do it

  5. Any other questions you think I should be asking?

  • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
    12·
    20 hours ago
    1. Found this through a Google search: Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack:
    • instance blocking
    • comments combination, posts only appear once
    • keyword filter
    • topics (admin-managed feeds)
    • user-managed feeds, public and private
    • tags
    • flairs
    • multi communities

    1. Yes & yes. They’re built on ActivityPub and interact with each other, though the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn’t (like tags) aren’t visible from Lemmy. And Lemmy can subscribe and interact with posts from PieFed.

    2. Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.

    3. App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.

    4. Can’t think of anything.

      • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        19 hours ago

        Imo, no good IOS mobile apps. Mlem, Voyager and others are great. If something similar existed for PieFed I would dump my lemmy account immediately. They now have Interstellar but it’s not stellar.

      • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
        32·
        19 hours ago

        the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn’t (like tags) aren’t visible from Lemmy

        I’m far from a PieFed expert (I’ve only just started using it a little) but this is the main disadvantage.

    • RandomStickman@fedia.io
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Would you know if there’s a way to export from Mbin to Piefed?

      I find it kinda funny how Piefed seems to have blew up over mbin lol

      • jollyroberts@jolly-piefed.jomandoa.netEnglish
        7·
        19 hours ago

        I don’t think we support mbin export/import ATM, but I’ve not tried

        I added Lemmy export and import to piefed a while back.

        I have a note to go work on the piefed export to Lemmy import on my List. It worked a while ago but seems unhappy at the moment. I’ll add mbin export to the List as well.