Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I’m blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.

Whats the catch? Why aren’t we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?

App support is one thing I can think of.

    • Blaze (he/him)
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      23 days ago

      It is, but there’s only one way to make Piefed grow, it’s to start getting Piefed communities more active.

      Lemmy covers pretty much all the topics the current Threadiverse is interested in, so at some point posters have to accept to post to smaller communities.

      I’m not saying everyone has to do it, but as OP states that Piefed is more polished, I was surprised

      • flamingos-cant
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        83 days ago

        Does it really matter when you can access the same content from Piefed? It’s one of fedi’s great strengths that different experiences can be tailored on the same platform.

        • irelephant [he/him]🍭OP
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          43 days ago

          Yep! We should probably move some comms to piefed, so that .world doesn’t control too much, but not to piefed specifically.

          • flamingos-cant
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            43 days ago

            There’s also three Fediverse comms (here, ml and zip) like do we really need another one?

              • flamingos-cant
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                23 days ago

                Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.

                Single mod who didn’t want to create a meta posts to ask for more mods.

                But the sidebar does say to DM them if you’re interested in modding. Not wanting a meta post is weird though.

                • Blaze (he/him)
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                  23 days ago

                  Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.

                  I just checked the graph, its now 4.26 days.

                  Not wanting a meta post is weird though.

                  Every time I had a mod refusing meta posts it lead to power tripping. Better safe than sorry

                  • Coelacanth
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                    Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I empathize with their plight but it’s what, 0.6% of the Lemmy userbase? I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

                    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            13 days ago

            not to piefed specifically.

            Why not? I’m not saying to move everything, but a few communities to Piefed could be nice. A few to Mbin too to keep everyone happy.

        • Snoopy
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          13 days ago

          It doesn’t matter, true. We can see every comments in a crossposted post. But on the other hand Blaze is also right. :)

          I told him the same thing about its lemmy repport that i wished something less lemmy centric. :)

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            13 days ago

            I told him the same thing about its lemmy repport that i wished something less lemmy centric. :)

            With our current situation, it’s just that most of the things are going to happen on Lemmy. New app update? it’s a Lemmy app. New monthly active user milestone reached? Lemmy is probably the main reason.

            Hopefully things will get more balanced over time, but we can’t expect a perfect 1/3 split of posts between the three platforms.

            • Snoopy
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              13 days ago

              Yep but considering your activities, you can tell them more about PieFed and Mbin. It will help reach a more balanced software’s use. :)