I'm new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it's pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I'm not super savvy but couldn't they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I'm wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

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[–] freamon@preferred.social 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

PieFed is just a Fediverse platform that aims to inter-op with Lemmy in much the same way that it aims to inter-op with any other Group-based platform (MBIN, PeerTube, NodeBB, Wordpress).

Lemmy's "quirks" are the reason why your account won't see Polls from MBIN, or channels from PeerTube, or posts from NodeBB, or backfilled content from Wordpress.

It's not my intent to criticise Lemmy, but these are verifiable problems, whereas it doesn't seem fair to criticise PieFed for problems that you can't clearly remember.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I'd rather not them be thinking it's a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well i think Piefed is pretty close to being a drop-in remplacement.

It's true there are several missing components. however, i recall it was the same for Lemmy 1,5 year ago. And Piefed is catching up in few months.

How close ? Let's sum up :)

On some part, Piefed clearly outmatch Lemmy on several area :

admin/moderation board
notification (the ability to chose a post/comment/community to follow/unfollow)
feed (multi-community)
federation with the fediverse
tag (to find more related content based on keyword)

maybe more thing that i don't know about

some part are missing for Piefed :

mobile app support (but the web mobile is good + coming soon)
lacks of theme
cross-post
notification board (repport/post/coms/idea aren't separated)
comment/post/moderation view
media management (lemmy doesn't have one yet, iceshrimp is the best on that area)

There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 32 minutes ago

The no app thing is a deal breaker for a lot of people