Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
It's honestly bonkers to have a community hosted on Lemmy this hostile to Lemmy as software and the developers.
Please add chess.com → lichess
Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!
Bookwyrm is cool, it just needs more attention and interaction. It would be cool if it could expand into other forms of media (games, movies) like NeoDB, which again feels like posting into the void.
FTFY
I've tried to promote Lemmy on Reddit in the past, only to be met with people complaining about the really old UI and bad UX, they also complain about tankies.
PieFed doesn't have that bad rep, so I've found it easier to promote, both lead to the Fedivers so either is a win.
PieFed has its own share of dodgy stuff:
UX/UI are only as bad as the client is. For me, Lemmy is indistinguishable from reddit (if you don't look at numbers of comments), because I use Lemmy Sync, as I used Reddit Sync before
I’m checking in with voyager here, and I came from the reddit Apollo app and I feel the same.
It was practically seamless, though I’ve considered switching to try out other clients.
Tried Piefed and find it clunky with my current level of familiarity
:3
Loops is mid. The community is pretty inactive, and the iOS build is quite buggy and lacking.
It only released onto the AppStore 3 days ago. I’d argue they deserve some time to get it right.
Wtf is piefed? I mean, I'm searching for it now, I've just never heard of it.
Another Reddit-like software that reads the Fediverse like Mbin. I'm speaking to you from Piefed.
I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.
It makes it look like a shitpost at a glance lol
Hey, hey you.
Get some.
Lol, posting Piefed as an alternative to reddit to Lemmy...
Also, PeerTube is super obtuse to get an account and has almost no reach. You almost have to personally know someone who has a server or host your own. There's a reason why video hosting has gotten so corporatized: it's expensive. That said, almost "no one" used Mastodon for nearly a decade and it's finally starting to take off, so maybe it just needs another decade or two.
Maybe I am just noob at using it. But calling pixelfed a substitution to instagram, is maybe just a little reach.. Pixelfed I found buggy, slow and dead community wise? Anyone to prove me wrong?
I've been using lemmy.world with the boost app. Should I look into piefed? Am I missing anything? I mean I'm happy with what I got, but is the grass any greener?
There's been some controversy recently about censorship hardcoded into Piefed's backend. Basically it gives people a "social credit score" based on how they post.
Yuck. Do you have any evidence?
Here's the writeup about it, going around
So it basically is a worse version of Reddit's karma.
Essentially, yes. And maybe that's part of why people jumping from reddit like it so much, but personally, I don't think the things like this that Piefied is doing are good for the fediverse ecosystem
I can understand where the reputation comes from - spammers and trolls will do everything they can to shit all over everything. Maybe this isn't the best way to address that problem, but I definitely understand the desire.
I run a forum for a very specific model of RV, and fucking spammers came in so often that I shut off registration and register everyone manually after they send me an email. It raises the bar just enough. Every now and then someone will whine about it, and I'm like, I hear you but this is much easier than cleaning the mess the spammers always leave.
props to you for running such a niche forum! That kind of thing is rare online nowadays
Every day is a good day to switch
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