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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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[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would also recommend lemmy. It's more established, has a strong community footing. And above all, it seems to be well written (in terms of code) and has tons of clients (UIs/apps). And like the other comment says, I'm not convinced about the performance of piefed