So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.
What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?
Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.
On which one should we put our weight?
PieFed all the way. It’s developing at lightning speed, while Lemmy lags behind as the transphobic genocide denying devs beg for donations with in built donation begging banners on all Lemmy instances front pages. Instances are apparently scared to defed from .ml for fear the devs wont support them with help.
Rimu has made some interesting choices, such as blocking 196 from default federating posts until a user subs first or a dislike for meme subs. But when spoken to has been receptive and removed such things or made them optional for admins.
Ethically and feature wise PieFed is in the lead, its not perfect but its open to change and receptive to ideas
Yeah, that’s true. I actually had this thought last night instead:
Recreate the original reddit.com where it was just a single feed. Except with modern features like posting tags and user flairs. Basically, take Lemmy, distill it down so that it only serves a single community instead of many communities, and federate it.
The more I think about it though, the more it falls apart I think. Like, should users be allowed to follow other communities? Then at that point am I just recreating lemmy with more steps, where you have to host a whole web stack for each community? Probably.