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PieFed monthly active users hits new all-time high (media.piefed.social)
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5808 active users, 2 more than in March.

Some of this will be due to new features in the latest version but I think most of it is because previously PieFed was not accurately keeping track of user activity. Now that it is, the numbers are bigger.

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[–] goodguys9@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

What exactly does PieFed do? I'm just on Lemmy, does PieFed let me see more fediverse content?

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I am simplifying probably but essentially it is like Lemmy and the two are talking to each other. Source: me and you, since I am on PieFed and you are on Lemmy but you can see my comments and I can see yours.

There's also the political difference that the Lemmy devs are often labelled as Tankies, not the case with the PieFed dev(s).

[–] goodguys9@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks!

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 3 points 2 weeks ago

Also, the UI. I migrated my server from Lemmy to Piefed, UI just feels more mature and I seem to require less resources.

[–] TherapyGary@piefed.diffrint.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't noticed a real difference so far on my instance

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think the biggest technical differences right now are polls and combining comments from cross-posted posts. There is some back-end stuff that won't have a bearing on most users.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It adds a whole bunch of functionality that Lemmy lacks. In addition to not being run by tankies.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Transphobic tankies too.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.

Why the special treatment?

[–] guy@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Guess it's because 4chan is a racist cesspool

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really a trait unique to 4chan. If that were the reason there'd be a Twitter filter too.

[–] guy@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not unique no, but 4chan is kinda famous for it, which Twitter is not. Also the amount of racism is not comparable

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eh, that's a subjective opinion. I don't remember moot ever doing any nazi salutes when he owned the site. Most of the worst stuff attributed to 4chan (GG, Qanon, etc) either got kicked off of the site or came from 4chan derivatives.

Meanwhile on Twitter you've got people casually dropping the n-word in their checkmark-boosted posts while getting literal cash payouts for their purposefully incendiary content that generates engagement.

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I haven't visited 4chan in a decade, so good to hear that they have started to moderate. Before though, on 4chan the n-word wasn't casually dropped but every other message lol. It's not comparable. One is like the home of racism and the other has racists.

[–] rjwilliamson@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Edit: see below

~~It bans users for no reason, and without explanation~~

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

PieFed is software.

Many Lemmy instances also ban users, in fact its flagship instance Lemmy.ml is famous for it.

Yours is a very sensible instance, which btw also offers a PieFed equivalent in PieFed.zip.

[–] rjwilliamson@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

EDIT: DISREGARD MY COMMENTS - This was in fact a bug, and seems to have been fixed with the latest update. Just checked my old account logins and they work now.

~~I was mainly referring to the flagship instances. I am on a smaller piefed instance as well, and have had no issues. At least with Lemmy, they would give you a reason, but in my case they acted like it was a bug. So draw from that what you will, but that has been my experience, and I am currently unable to register an account on a primary piefed instance, without being given a reason for that being the case.~~

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Props for publicly walking back a bold claim, looking into it further, realizing you were wrong, and admitting it. You love to see it. We don't die on hills.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago

PieFed is a lot newer than Lemmy and while it has some more features (also some less features, depending on the feature), it overall lacks polish in comparison.

I'm glad they were able to get you sorted out:-).

[–] buliarous@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

the biggest thing is it aggregates lemmy and dedupes posts and aggregates other reddit like fediverse content thus its just all around better than lemmy imo -- people can still use lemmy you're just getting more high quality content with piefed

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's a different frontend for the same content. Also it has additional features. Same thing with a better interface IMHO.