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giving a shit about "upvotes" seems like such a reddit thing to do.
I'm here for replies and conversation and yes...sometimes getting into arguments with dickheads (and...I'll be honest...sometimes being said dickhead when I'm having a bad day)
I don't actually care how many internet strangers are giving me made up internet points or not. It's always just seemed to me to be vacuous and silly as something to "chase"
Upvotes are a means to an end for site visibility though, which is required to attain conversation in most cases.
I get that. I just mean that I don't spend time trying to tailor an answer to try to get the most number of upvotes. I'll say what i want to say, and if people want to upvote me for it or downvote me for it makes no difference whatsoever.
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Lemmy is fine though what are you on about
Well, it works. But Piefed is developing more features quicker atm.
So we should all just jump? Meh. Lemmy 1.0 is releasing soon which should help quite a bit.
AFAIK the two can federate with eachother so I'm glad we have both.
Thesis: Lemmy is better!
Antithesis: Piefed is better!
Synthesis: Bitch, they're federated??
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Not necessarely that's the beauty of the fediverse. You can enjoy PieFed growth and all it's content but stick on Lemmy if you don't feel like moving.
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Piefed uses Python which is faster for development but the language is slower. Lemmy is built on Rust. I appreciate some features Piefed has but I do wonder about its scalability.
but the language is slower
it really depends what's the metric. Most web server stuff is IO-bound not compute-bound so Python can actually be faster than Rust.
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Lemmy is fine though
except crazy authoritarian tankie leadership? It's just a matter of time until one of them goes wacky (again) and brings down the entire brand.
It's good to diversify here.
that is just one instance, in particular lemmy.ml. pretty much everywhere else they make fun of them.
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I much prefer the technical architecture of Lemmy over PieFed. I understand the qualms with the core developers, but it feels dirty to move from Rust to Python.
This is the first I've heard of piefed, and so I'm just browsing the desktop site. It's kinda jank, to be honest.
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Thanks for this post. Found my way into a PieFed account because of it. I find the user experience to be much more pleasant indeed. Especially for finding communities across instances and searching for posts/comments in general.
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Another migration. I know I'm sure I'll be told I'm a ding dong, but all these migrations are the reason why decentralized social media will never be popular. Some probably think that's a good thing, but 90% of the posts here are the same person posting hentai.
What do you mean "another migration"? Piefed and Lemmy communities and instances can be viewed from both.
I'll use the Casual Conversation community as an example. They started out on Lemmy.World. They had 6.7k subscribers. They moved to lemm.ee, which was shut down. Now they are at piefed. One of the biggest communities migrated multiple times and has lost almost 20% of the subscribers.
One could argue that this is the purpose of decentralized social media, but my point is that constant migration and evolution, while not exactly dubious, will keep casual users away.
Most of the initial communities made primarily on lemmy.world benefited from the initial flood of users joining from Reddit after the API fiasco. Most of them didn't stick around - but their presence on as subscribers on those communities still persists. It's a false number.
Subscribers aren't a great metric to determine community viability in many cases.
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One of the biggest communities migrated multiple times and has lost almost 20% of the subscribers.
Subscribers are a poor metrics. Active users is much more relevant, and !casualconversation@piefed.social is as active as the previous versions used to be
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High-fidelity community migration (no loss of followers) is on my to-do list for the next release. It might get bumped to the release after but it's on the agenda.
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Oof. Lemmy as a decrepit grandma is a bit unkind.
Without their pioneering work in the early quiet days and absorbing the first wave of reddit refugees, PieFed wouldn't have anything to glom onto and build from so there is a symbiosis going on.
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What's the difference? Can I see piefed communities through Lemmy? Or do I need a different account and/or app?
Piefed has more features and different devs. From an user perspective they're not very different.
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In terms of what content you can see, the difference between Lemmy and PieFed is effectively the same as the difference between two Lemmy instances. As long as the instances federate with one another, it does not matter which platform you use. You can definitely interact with PieFed from Lemmy just fine. In fact, you are doing so right now! My account is on a PieFed Instance.
This meme is more making a joke about how relatively young PieFed is. Years back, a post to any community on the fediverse that got 20 upvotes was huge. But today, a post with 20 votes is basically nothing (depending in the size of the community). By the time PieFed came about, the fediverse was populated enough that a post with only 20 votes was nothing like a post with 20 votes in the olden days of Lemmy.
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I looked into making yet another account, this time on piefed, but didn't like the automatic blocking of a few communities. Yeah, I'm a massive hypocrite because I argued hard for the defederation of maga.place from sh.itjust.works, but since coming to lemmy.today I don't like the idea of automatic defederation where the users don't have input.
Are there any piefed instances that don't block anything? Or, is there a way for me to befriend everyone on my account?
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Two uppies are enough. I made one person smile/chuckle/think/poo in terror/hungry. In terms of bad fables "it made a difference to that one"
If you got two up votes, I'd wager at least twenty people also viewed your content without down voting. That's a big win.
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