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Can we finally admit that Lemmy is just Reddit trying to tell you its not Reddit? (piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I mean, the behavior of the community speaks for itself. They try so hard not being the thing they ran from three years ago, but in the midst of their attempt, they end up evolving into the very thing they ran from. Its like they just didn't like being on the platform of origin, promised they'd do better, then realizing how separated they are to where they just recreated it by instinct.

Power-Tripping Mods, Gaslighting Users, Immature Moderators, 100 Rules to follow but contradicts itself .etc

I can just go on and on and on. Oh and I don't even care about this stupid debate that happened between .ML and .World because there's virtually no difference and it is just nothing but a sissy online slapfight.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hey actually got a follow up but untreated to op - I still don't really understand the difference between .world and Piefed. I find myself using the Piefed interface a lot, and although a lot of the content here is similar, it's not identical to where I signed up, .world (even though I'm subscribed to the same instances).

Anyone got a quick primer on the differences?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Lemmy.world and piefed.social are two different instances (servers) run by different people. They also run different software (Lemmy and Piefed respectively) which speaks the same protocol and can talk to each other (and other instances as well).

    If you look at the same community e.g. !fediverse@lemmy.world under each instance the content should be the same: the protocol should ensure that. The interface, the way it is presented to you, might be different, mostly decided by the software (Lemmy or Piefed, or any reader client you use).

    It is also possible some posts or replies made it to one instance but not the other, perhaps due to technical problems, or policy (one instance’s admin might decide to not federate with another), but you should not encounter it very often (but it certainly happens).

    People choose one instance over another for different reasons. Perhaps they like one software’s interface better than another. Perhaps they feel one server is faster and more responsive than another. Perhaps they would like to subscribe to a community which is blocked by certain instances. Fortunately there is nothing to stop somebody from signing up at multiple instances, so one can just try each out and find out which one is suitable for them.

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