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.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.world will eventually enable parallel sending

But when? I don't want to openly ask LW admins because the 0.19.9 migration took them a while, but it doesn't seem like it's going to happen any time soon. I've seen someone mentioning that they might be delaying it due to resources issues, but their resource usage is not going to go down any time soon.

aussie.zone

It is not only aussie.zone. Reddthat is also hosted in Australia, and then had to add a proxy in Europe to prevent a similar delay: https://reddthat.com/post/37387576/17377718. Lemmy.nz is in a similar case.

Lemmy.blahaj.zone is also Australian IIRC, but not sure where the server is hosted. Reddthat is only 429 MAU, but Blahaj is 1171

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

LW are hesitant to do major changes because if something goes wrong it disrupts the entire Lemmy ecosystem. It's a direct negative consequence of them growing too big, but once they're in this position I can understand their reservations. I too wish they'd implement upgrades faster but I have no reason to believe they will just refuse to implement an upgrade forever, that's unreasonable to assume.

Lemmy.nz is what, about 100 MAU? And I know a Blåhaj admin is Australian but Fedi Observer has the server listed as based in Finland and hosted in Germany. Don't know if that's wrong though. Are their users also reporting delays?