So far, the Lemmy devs being Marxist doesnt seem to affect the quality of the software. And since it's the fediverse you can just go to a server that doesn't clash with your own world view.

Yeah the only thing I dont like about Piefied is its written in Python instead.
The Communist stuff shouldn't be a problem unless it affected the Software itself.

It's also just generally easier for first-time users to start using. For anyone curious, their little "feeds" of communities you can follow in one go by topic are super handy.

For example, if I subscribe to the activismplus feed, I automatically subscribe to communities like antiwork, solarpunk, socialism, leftism, anarchism, unions, antifascism, human rights, left urbanism, etc, from a number of different instances all at once.

For a first-time user, it's easier to pick a topic they're interested in and automatically be following all the relevant communities across most instances, rather than subscribing to communities one-by-one over a very long period of time.

cm0002’s reply is a good summary. It’s an alternate platform, but because of the nature of the Fediverse it plays nicely with Lemmy. So I’m posting this on Piefed but you can read it with Lemmy, and vice versa.

Ohhhhh

Nvm then

Carry on

2 instances at the same time man

The mods just do great work in some subs, but completely destroy others. I got banned overall for posting facts in conservative subs...

But I don't think lemmy fixes that since it has the same mod/channel structure. The nice thing is that advertisers and nefarious actors haven't started posting as "fellow kids" yet, like they have on Reddit for many years.