That's fine - no software is for literally everyone:-). I am curious, was it the anonymous voting? Bc if so, know that it was abolished already as a failed experiment. I never liked the whole idea of it and spoke out against it from the start.

Fwiw, I HARD believe that consuming Threadiverse content from PieFed definitely takes some getting used to, in comparison to Lemmy - it took me weeks to even begin to feel comfortable, and weeks to months more (not continuous effort:-) to feel like I had optimized it.

On Lemmy I mainly browsed by All, swapping between Hot and New, and blocking communities that did not hold my interest (sports, specific locations, anime, etc.), while on PieFed I haven't subscribed to that many, and blocked virtually nothing. I also spent a heck of a lot less time on the main Subscription page than I did in Lemmy.

Instead I set direct notifications to be sent to me for every new post if the community is small enough, and like I subscribe to barely any news communities so that it does not overwhelm my Subscribed Feed and instead use the Topic areas to scratch that itch, far less than once per day lately. On Lemmy I barely encountered any poetry posts unless I happened to check in New right as it got posted, but in PieFed the Arts and Craft, and if even that gets too much the Arts subtopic separates out photography and craft posts.

So you definitely aren't the only one who found the transition not entirely smooth. And wow, the search function is atrocious right now (by design, as I myself even keep arguing against fixing it, since Lemmy's works so well and even without a login account so it's not so urgent a need for most of us right now, but definitely the main devs are chomping at the bit to work on it, as time allows).

But anyway, it's surely not everyone's cup of tea, and that's cool too. Kudos for giving it a shot. I'm surprised the sign-up wizard alone didn't make you fall absolutely in love with it, from the perspective of let's say a new user thinking about switching over to the Threadiverse from Reddit, and yet the flip side of that is that you most definitely are not in the same position there:-).

Still, I'd be curious to hear what turned you off of it, in case that may help others, or if I should not recommend for certain use cases or some such?