Piefed is another reddit-like forum that is federated using ActivityPub (the same underlying tech that Lemmy uses).
Piefed is very similar to Lemmy functionally, and the creator designed it specifically to be as compatible with lemmy as possible so they can communicate with each other without a problem. You can even visit piefed communties from your lemmy, like !animation@piefed.social or !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social.
Piefed is already compatible with a couple of lemmy mobile apps, like Interstellar and Voyager, so if we were to switch SLRPNK to a piefed instance, you would be able to continue to use those apps, if you already are used to them. You can also make the mobile web page itself into a web app.
The Web UI will be different from lemmy, which you can test at Piefed.social to see what it'd be like. We'd very likely create a custom theme for it similar to our existing lemmy one.
Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:
- a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
- the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
- the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.
On the sysadmin side of things, it'd bring some nice advantages regarding network resource usage.
So overall, it hopefully wouldn't bring many downsides, besides potentially having to learn and get used to a new UI (though Photon, which we host as an alternative web UI, will soon support it as well, making the experience pretty much identical if you're already used to that).
I really, really like the logo you have for it. It's snazzy AF :)