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this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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Seeing people say piefed is better than lemmy:
(Ignore my non-lemmy instance)
I think if you roll one of the instances (like yours) that overrides the basic censorship stuff it ain't so bad. It's a different UI and I can see why some people would prefer that. I wish it wasn't developed by a right winger though.
The UI is separate from the backend regardless. You can swap out Lemmy's frontend with like a dozen others.
Most of Piefed's features could have been implemented with an alternate frontend for Lemmy, but they don't do that because the real primary goal of the project is to coopt and destroy the only corner of the internet where communists have any sense of sovereignty.
Obviously not stated out loud, but I wager the intention is to mirror the Lemmy API closely at first while flooding Lemmy with rabid, astroturfed anti-communist propaganda, convince enough users to migrate to Piefed, then start to introduce API incompatibilities so that interop doesn't work as well for Lemmy users.
I wouldn't be surprised if the project originated as an op in response to a libre, communist led social network appearing.
It's the classic Microsoft "triple E" strategy that has been used against libre historically:
Embrace (interoperable)
Extend (new features)
Extinguish (fork the protocols to break interoperability)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish
You're right, I hadn't considered that this was part of a strategy like this. I rescind what I said; piefed delenda est.