I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day https://old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1ijmkc0/make_the_switch_away_from_meta/

Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc. If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.

I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.

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[–] [S] 46 points 8 months ago* (51 children)

PieFed > Lemmy (In my opinion)

I switched to PieFed a while ago, it's the same thing but better (IMO)
It also doesn't have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy, and the UX is a lot better (IMO)

It also has quite a few nice features that Lemmy lacks. Try out both, see which you like.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Damn. Trashing Lemmy on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    In a way yes, because this post is in a community running on a Lemmy instance. But at the same time: The user was did not use Lemmy to write the Lemmy trashing :)

    (And Lemmy is good. It's just, PieFed is so much better!)

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    If that's trashing, most debates I've seen would be bloodbaths. e.e"

    Irony aside, if someone is politely criticized, what seems to be what the OP did, and the receiver sees it as a problem, the receiver shouldn't be a public figure.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

    Please elaborate. What’s better on Piefed?

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Some additional features that PieFed has:

    • You can create posts with polls.
    • Crossposts shows comments from everywhere that something is crossposted to (organized into their own sections)
    • Feeds for combining multiple communities into one.
    • You can blur images with spoiler tags instead of having to use NSFW.
    • You can tag posts and then filter down posts based on those tags within a community.
    • You can set a time/date for when something gets posted.

    That's just what I can think of off the top of my head. Otherwise a more complete list can be found here: https://join.piefed.social/features/

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    All communities with the word ‘meme’ in the name are automatically flagged as low quality but admins can override this on a case-by-case basis.

    ok you got me interested

    EDIT :

    Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.

    wait what? I might not have the whole lore but this reads as "communism" is not allowed. I guess that's a feature for some people.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    It has more features than Lemmy atm, such as custom feeds, flairs or tags or whatever you call them, community moving, etc. (Some of which will also come to Lemmy in v1.0.0): https://join.piefed.social/features/

    Since it uses Python and not Rust, it can be developed faster* => faster development and more first time contributions.

    Of course it isn't perfect, it has its downsides as any other software. You might also find it more attractive if you don't like the Lemmy devs' political views.

    Though it is a bit opinionated, it's good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.

    Whatever happened to kbin -> mbin? That was another early threadiverse alternative, but I don't hear much about it anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Mbin is not as popular as Lemmy or Piefed, so nobody talks about it. Even before Piefed started being popular, Kbin was still not that popular compared to Lemmy in the past nor Piefed right now (might be an exaggeration).

    With the Kbin lead dev, Ernest, not being active enough (due to medical reasons), the community forked Kbin, which is what we know today as Mbin.

    https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1383#issuecomment-1999046

    https://lemmy.world/post/7125414

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Mbin still exists https://fedidb.com/software/mbin

    although the biggest instance, fedia.io, no longer allows anonymous viewing, which is kind of a shame

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks. I was wondering if mbin was still actively being used and developed.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    How does one “move” to piefed? Do I keep my subscriptions and everything tied to my account?

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    You pick a piefed server and create an account there. You can transfer subscriptions, but that is not something i have done. Your content posted by your .world account stays with that account however.

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  • [+] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I started on .world and quickly realized I wanted a smaller instance. So I moved to .ee and sopuli, then when .ee went down I decided to not limit myself to a single instance. I do not have as many accounts as cm02 does, 4 total I think. But only use 3 of them much.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Adding to the thread of account redundancy and backups based on personal experiences...

    I started I think it was on .ml or .world, quickly found kbin.social and preferred it, it died and I didn't have a culture of backing up accounts, then I moved to lemm.ee and I kinda forgot to make a backup in the grace period before it died (oopsie) but at least had been hoarding on RSS feeds so not all was lost, then found Mbin was a thing, then found about external RSS's and searching for fediverse links for pulling external posts.

    Adjacent to external RSS's, also found out when an instance goes poof, the community/group/magazine keeps propagating, just as a derelict one. So while it'd be a moderation hell, at least it's somewhat preserved.

    So moral of the story, there are a few ways to back stuff up, and thus, adding to the choir, please do use them.

    And an addendum, PieFed also has external RSS feeds by default, so for example, piefed.social provides their own RSS feed for !fediverse@lemmy.world.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱

    It's nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Recommend a mobile app for it?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It also doesn't have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy

    Oh you sweet summer child.

    They're just hard coding keywords to limit reach of usauthoritarianism and queer community.

    https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/3230397/-/comment/13562251

    You'll need to login to view content, because they got the original post deleted but it's still cached on fedia.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    From what I remember it was about some discover feed feature or something and they tried to curate it a bit, remove greentexts and stuff that had a ton of posts or something.

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