I'd say its similar to lemmy, but with features people have asked for like a way to combine the feeds of similar communities and more moderation options.

The easiest way I can explain it though is to encourage people to just check it out. It's not as mature in some places, but has lots of features you didn't realise you were missing until you tried them :)

It used activitypub, the same as lemmy, so you can find and interact with all the communities you do on lemmy too.

At the moment interstellar is the only one I'm aware of but many are adding it as an option

Hey, so better is more of an objective term - piefed offers a more comprehensive moderation experience for admins and mods, and addresses some of the issues that users raise around multiple communities and account settings etc.

Piefed runs on activitypub just like lemmy does, so are compatible with eachother - you probably already see piefed users and communities in your lemmy feed.

I wouldn't say there is an argument either way from a user perspective- I'd encourage people to try both and see what they like.

There are no front ends yet that work with piefed (like tesseract or photon) but they're being worked on. There's also only a few apps, but similarly these are being worked on too, so before long you can probably interact with either software through an app.

Lemmy was the first and so is the most popular, and I hope the devs are able to bring some of the moderation features over to lemmy too, as it is quite a limited experience in comparison to many fediverse softwares.

Hope that helps, but tldr try both and see which one you like, they can interact with eachother anyway, I.e. https://piefed.zip/c/home can be interacted with via https://lemmy.zip/c/[email protected]

On the other hand, dot zip admins are known to be chill and not likely to cause a defederation.

I think the only thing that has kept me on lemmy instead of piefed is the voyager app. I tried piefed web interface on mobile but I just missed voyager too much.

slight edit to this reply from when it was posted

Currently under review - there are other tools built in to Piefed we might be able to use other than a full geoblock. We could comply with the OSA by preventing UK IP addresses from creating accounts. Unfortunately we'd need a country level NSFW toggle to allow UK users to join.

Still early days, so I can't rule it out though.

Just double check your spam folder :)

If its not there drop me a message!

Hey, yeah it is. We will enable the API soon - we just wanted to get everything up before we enabled it :) we'll need it for our bot stuff anyway.

Hey, much like lemmy, it won't pull posts from before the first user subscribed (in this case you!) However, piefed has a feature where you can import posts in to the community if they're not already there. I'll pull a few of them now, so keep an eye on it :)

Hey, all good questions.

Different hardware, piefed.zip is running on a cloud vps. Still with hetzner so the admin team can access & troubleshoot.

Donations wise, if piefed takes off we'll probably go down a joint .zip dono route, rather than distinctly donating to each individual server. If nothing else, its easier to manage one dono page/setup than multiple. In the meantime I'll fund at least month 1 until I'm happy either way. Lemmy.zip is still my baby and won't be going anywhere. But yes I'll do some comms around that when I'm happy with a solution.

Piefed offers more in terms of moderation and enables a wider "staff" team, which is a level that lemmy is missing, I.e. an instance moderator. We've already started to leverage that, so that the moderation isn't just on the admin team, rather trusted community members can help out. Happy for anyone to reach out if they're planning on switching to piefed and want to help out.

this is a non issue

It's an announcements that the new instance exists

Scared of snakes?