• asudox@lemmy.asudox.devEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It has more features than Lemmy atm, such as custom feeds, flairs or tags or whatever you call them, community moving, etc. (Some of which will also come to Lemmy in v1.0.0): https://join.piefed.social/features/

      Since it uses Python and not Rust, it can be developed faster* => faster development and more first time contributions.

      Of course it isn’t perfect, it has its downsides as any other software. You might also find it more attractive if you don’t like the Lemmy devs’ political views.

      Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

      • Cricket@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

        Whatever happened to kbin -> mbin? That was another early threadiverse alternative, but I don’t hear much about it anymore.

    • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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/

      • Kajika@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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

        EDIT :

        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.