I haven't used piefed myself but I wouldn't want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or "reputation" as they call it):

Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.

People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.

Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.

I also don't agree with some of the points in their article on "PieFed features for growing healthy communities".

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 1 points 59 minutes ago

I see what you mean on the growing healthy communities bit.

That plus private votes, nah, I'm good.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Well, that doesn't matter for blåhaj, which disables downvotes, at least

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That seems aimed to create a very closed echo chamber.

[–] sleepyleaf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

I disagree. There are tools that admins who want an echo chamber can leverage to help them create one, sure. But that's true for any social media.

It's not as if the Lemmy software has any lack of echo chambers hosted on it.

And there are also tools that help prevent an echo chamber from forming, if the admins want to avoid it (for example, tracking the accounts that downvote the most comments, disabling karma gain from circlejerk communities).