PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you? (slrpnk.net)

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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?

Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781

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[-] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The number one issue with the fediverse in general is the tiny stagnant user base. Everything else is way too insignificant to matter. People could make as many fediverse platforms as they want, it doesn't mean anything if nobody is using them.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually why I like it better here. On Reddit I would doom scroll endlessly. Here I can take in my rage bait, get into pointless political arguments, and lament humanity's future, and still get something accomplished that day.

[-] cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Also lemmy doesn't have the 'karma' system. There's literally no point to karma farm here. Like, it doesn't matter if my comments get downvoted to oblivion, it's not hurting my imaginary score that I have to maintain to interact in certain big subreddits.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

Not so many people use Mastodon, yet they get all excited and flock to Bluesky. It is possible to entice people to join, if they are offered something that they want. They have expressed reasons for not joining, or leaving after joining even for months, perhaps we should try to improve things so that they feel more comfortable being here?

[-] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The people who use Mastodon are very different from the people who use Bluesky. The people who use BlueSky are the former unhinged left wing Twitter users of years past that gave the platform it's notoriety as being the most toxic platform on the internet. When Musk took over, Twitter's title as the worst platform remained the same, except he shifted the source of the toxicity from being left wing to being right wing. This led the unhinged left wing Twitter users to seek a clone that replicated the toxic environment that they once thrived in, and BlueSky just happened to be the one that lucked out.

The point is that the BlueSky people don't care about anything outside political tribalism. That's what drove them out of Twitter and it's what drove them to BlueSky. That makes them very different from Mastodon users who, for the most part, actually value things like privacy, security, freedom of the internet, ownership, and control. The people who use Mastodon are tech nerds, privacy activist, or niche interest groups that thrive in such a space like the crypto community. I feel like even if we streamlined the process and it easier for people to join, the BlueSky types still wouldn't have an interest in joining.

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