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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

From an instance admins perspective, yes.

Otherwise it's about on-par at a community moderation level. It has a few other things but they don't present as viewed from Lemmy, mitigating their utility at the moment.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago (5 children)

I think people leave because of the lack of niche communities.

That is also true:-). What they say for themselves is (1) tankies, (2) toxicity, (3) too confusing (this must be Lemmy bc PieFed's sign up wizard is outstanding), and (4) yeah, lack of content.

I haven't moderated a community on PieFed, but in addition to what Skavau said, PieFed has many tools that alleviate the need for moderation in the first place, like keyword filtering (you wouldn't need to make a community rule to reduce the amount of Musk or Trump content when users can filter that out on their own without needing a mod to do it for them) and user icons (next to e.g. highly contentious users with >10-fold more downvotes than upvotes, so you better know what you are getting into if you choose to respond).

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[–] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

For me it is personally what keeps me still on reddit.

I love lemmy/piefed for the awesome people, but really feel the lack of niche content.

I want to start my own communities on lemmy, but it is just so hard to keep it going. I don't have the energy for that. Living life is difficult as it is already. And I don't want to see my community die.

Also Reddit bans you from upvoting and participating, but you still get personalized ads even after you get banned. LOL

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

There are whole entire huge events that happen in the world that when I search the Threadiverse find no matches to those keywords, as if it did not occur or at least it went unacknowledged by this community. So not even just lack of "niche" content, but lack of content beyond tankie and/or USA politics and Linux v. Windoze.

Communities there are like "<insert name of game here, global version, community #2>", while here it be like... "games". Same for the vast majority of movies or TV shows.

However, I completely get it - this is a toxic bunch, and I for one have stopped recommending Lemmy to people IRL. I don't want to lose friendships over them coming here, seeing how we can be (without SUBSTANTIAL amounts of blocking), and then noping out, thinking I am one of "them".

We need the content, I am agreeing with you, but we will never get it because we chase everyone away by being too toxic. I am putting my hopes now not into Lemmy anymore but into PieFed, and in particular better moderation tools that could potentially save the Threadiverse from perpetually remaining in obscurity. Though it still needs quite a bit of polish first imho.

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[–] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well if anything, at least you can post stuff and have substantial people see it. Perks of being a small place.

Also I am .ee refugee. For now I have home. But I am convinced of joining piefed whenever I create another account.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The list of features is large and continues to grow larger all the time, we will win you over one day...

Like we just added emoji responses to all posts and comments. I guess like Reddit awards, but non-monetized. How you can hold out resisting joining right away is beyond me...😉

Or do like most of us and make an alt - then you'll have the best of both worlds, whenever you want either one (or there's like a Cloudflare blockage or some such). Yet be warned, one glance at PieFed's sign up wizard and you may never go back... 🤩

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