Lemmy or Mbin users, have you tried Piefed? - eviltoast

List of instances: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack

  • instance blocking
  • comments combination, posts only appear once
  • keyword filter
  • topics (admin-managed feeds)
  • user-managed feeds, public and private
  • ability to reduce the amount of Trump and Musk content

It doesn’t have an app yet, but it’s in progress

At the moment, it only has 352 monthly active users, so it seems like people aren’t very interested in it yet

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

Is this the lack of app, or is there anything else?

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    My biggest beef with PieFed is its lack of “polish”.

    1. there is a “preview” option for new posts, but not for comments, even though 99% of what I do is reply to existing posts or comments
    2. the Notifications feature needs serious work: a medium fraction of the time when I click it’s pointing to something that doesn’t exist, or if it does it won’t actually take me there
    3. the search feature sucks, as too does Reddit’s, but Lemmy’s is amazing
    4. oh yeah, once you begin a list like this it’s super annoying to try to stop, as every line afterwards will try to continue it (even with intervening empty lines)

    All of which is a fantastic place to be, when the feature set is even larger than Lemmy’s, and in several ways begins to exceed that of Reddit even (in terms of democratization of moderation features). PieFed has its annoyances, which given its super rapid pace of development I have little doubt will be fixed sooner rather than later, but it’s like getting in on the ground floor for something that’s REALLY going to grow, if only bc every single thing that people are asking for, ends up being added as a feature extremely quickly. Mastodon could really stand to learn something from how PieFed is developed (ignoring user requests, especially celebrities that are necessary to help the platform really take off, and even ignoring actual code written and offered to it? es no bueno).