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Feedback on whether to host Lemmy or Piefed for niche community - Cross post PieFed (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm considering launching a server for some fediverse applications for a niche group. Since the Lemm.ee announcement, I got back in to PieFed, partially because my company blocks xxx.zip (lemmy.zip, etc). I would want to make these fediverse services easily available and reachable to newcomers.

I'm thinking of sticking with Lemmy and maybe the photon UI instead of the default, or have the default hosted at another address. I like the features of PieFed, but I think that the lack of apps could be a barrier to entry.

I'd like to hear others' thoughts as well. Lemmy seems to be more ubiquitous and has better app support, so I think that would be better so serve. I don't think that hosting both would be a good idea, as it'd create fragmentation in an already niche area.

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

A comment I came across like two weeks ago puts it quite well:

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".

from: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17119490
the comments' thread is also quite interesting

Plus it's written in Python and has only a few hundred MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales

EDIT: Regarding Lemmy frontends, I suggest you take a look at how the instance I'm on handles it. They append a single char in front of the url to signify the various frontends

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you can also be opinionated and swap out the frontend. lemdro.id does it

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

IMO letting the default be default and offering other options is the best. Why? Bc the frontents are inconsistent and may only partially offer features lemmy-ui has or in a different way. Like leave the default bc it's the thing people are used to but give the freedom of choice having various frontends "natively" on your instance

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can still use the lemmy-ui frontend on lemdro.id, it's just at l.lemdro.id and not the default. You've got all the choice in the world still.

I'm a big fan of people being opinionated about things. If you want something a certain way, do it! That's the beauty of the fediverse and open source in general. If you don't like it, you don't have to use my instance!

In-general, we work closely with the photon dev to maintain feature parity with the default frontend, and we also get some neat and useful moderation features too.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

That is indeed the beauty, I agree. I like some opinionated software as well (Gnome for example). Opinionated always fits better than generalised stuff IMO. I can disagree with that opinion, but that just means it's not for me and might be great for others