A lot of people talk up PieFed, and I think I found a community I like (RetroFed, they’re based around retro gaming, but they’re also new, so I’m not really trying to push them per se) so I signed up with them… so, aside from looking a little different, what’s really different here?

Not really looking for a “PieFed vs Lemmy” debate kind of thing, more of a “hey check this out” vibe.

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    For me (I think some of those might have been introduced to Lemmy too in the meantime. I haven’t been checking):

    1. Feeds!
      If I want to check up on what’s going on in news, I open the feed with news. When I want to read posts about games, I open games feed.
      Those can be private (your collection of communities), owned by you but shared with others, or you can subscribe to public feeds of others. And those federate, so you can follow Skavau’s hard work from any PieFed instance
    2. Notifications (opt-int - you click what you want to follow)
    • per post
    • per feed
    • per community
    • of responses to your comments and posts
    • …
    • you can also set reminders about posts and comments
    1. Merged posts
      I no longer have to jump through all the cross-posts, the comments are all together under a post. And there is info which community block starts, so you still get the context of the comments
    2. Events
      Although not often used, this is super cool feature, where you can mark a post to be an event and it will create an .ics file you can use with any calendar app
    3. tags
      I do hope Threadiverse gets closer with Mastodon (while staying a Threadiverse) and I think this is a step in right direction
    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Sometimes I like to wonder what someone who instantly jumped through time from 1980 to now would make of certain sentences we find normal.

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’m on lemmy using the connect app and it merges posts that have been reposted or duplicated from multiple communities.

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Oooo, I haven’t tried that one until now. Do you know how to switch from ‘All’ to ‘Subscribed’? I can switch from Active to Hot, Top, etc but not away from the All feed.

    • dragontology@retrofed.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Mlem is the app I use on iPhone (and I’m in the beta); I use Voyager on Android, though I’m on my Android phone less.

      Duplicate as in cross-post, like say someone posts the same thing to a community of the same name (or even not) on, say, .world, .ml, and a couple others? I’ve heard about that and that’s one reason I joined PieFed.

      • Sjmarf@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        Mlem dev here. Mlem currently supports two PieFed-exclusive features:

        • Polls: see !polls@piefed.social for examples.
        • Adding notes to users: click on the menu in the top right of a user profile and choose “edit note”.

        PieFed has many more features that we don’t support yet (see Rimu’s message). We do not yet support crosspost merging.

        The most feature-complete experience on mobile would be to use the PieFed website directly. There’s a detailed comparison of different apps’ support for PieFed features here: https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, so like I’m on Interstellar right now and if the same post is in multiple communities and I open it up each of their different comment sections will be there.

  • Gobsmacked@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I’m just a basic user trying to divorce the corporate socials and this has all the right features. I think it’s more intuitive than lemmy. I’m excited that it might pick up in popularity.

  • spectrums_coherence@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I really like the bidirectional blocking, I am no longer at the mercy of my instance defedrating with ml, and people I block also cannot vote on or interact with my post.

    • dragontology@retrofed.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      When I was on Lemmy, I set it up to ignore all vote counts. Sort everything by new and hide the vote numbers. I see your reply has 1 vote (yours) and if I upvote it (I did) it goes up to 2. So I would want to hide that number. I want the ability to vote without being influenced by the votes of others. I never really thought about people I block. I only block those who are excessively rude, or post things I do not want to see in places I don’t expect to see them. I’m glad people you block can’t vote on your post, but if someone I block replies, I don’t really mind as long as I don’t get the notification. Let others see it and vote/act accordingly (as long as they don’t point it out to me, that’s rude).

      • wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        PieFed allows you to customize some display things using custom css in your user profile. This post has some css snippets that might be of interest. Notably, this snippet seems to be what what you want:

        .score {  
  display: none !important;  
}