Heard of piefed while browsing lemmy, and people were saying it did a good job of combining communities. Before that, was a reddit refugee after the api fiasco.
You succinctly described my case. +1 to that
Is there any client that supports combined communities? I think voyager doesn't do it yet, but I really like it for marking posts seen on scroll.
I'm just using the website. You can go to https://piefed.social/topics and it groups posts across instances by topic.
I moved to Piefed ~6 months ago (after about a year of Lemmy), so I am not part of this wave (although I think there was a mini-wave when I joined), that being said, welcome to all newcomers!
Shameless self-promotion; if you like gaming, check out the sidebar of this community:
It links to a bunch of active gaming communities, both general/mainstream and indie focused.
This is where we need people to be redirected to !newcomers@piefed.zip
I checked out the community right after I got here, and the last weekly thread was posted three months ago. Honestly, I’m kinda scared to start new posts in places that usually have weekly threads. My past subreddit experiences still haunt me.
I think the idea is that new people would post in weekly threads, but there's no real directing users to that. Did you get directed to that community when you arrived? I can easily schedule posts if necessary.
Understandable when some mods go down hard on people who break the unwritten rules.
Did something happen to cause a new flood of users?
There was a pro-Piefed post dumped in fediverse@lemmy.world and a couple of Reddit threads, they weren't like explosive in size but they did have some activity.
there is a popular post on the BuyFromEU subreddit today mentioning piefed (among other fediverse platforms) but i don't know if that was all or if there is something else going on too
I've been on lemmy for like 6 months and saw I can look at Piefed through Voyager.
You can look at piefed through anything, piefed and lemmy are essentially transparent to the clients.
(Yes I know it's more complicated than that, but that doesn't really matter here)
Hello new friends :)
I'd recommend taking a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@feddit.org to check out new communities, or even start/promote your own!
Those communities aren't hosted on Piefed, but that's sort of the beauty of this place.
!communitypromo@feddit.org is mainly for german speaking communities
For the english equivalent go to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Thanks for the clarification!
I was on midwest.social and they were having some federation issues. I decided to try out PieFed instead of another lemmy instance. So far I have tried kbin (RIP), lemmy and now piefed.
Same! Also a good opportunity to check out different Threadiverse clients.
It's good to have options and try out different clients to see what you like best
Happy to have you here of course, but I hope midwest.social is doing alright! I like that crowd.
We are ok. The admin is fighting scrapers.
State of the internet. Ugh. Well, happy to hear it's not being abandoned. :)
Same, with multiple Lemmys (Lemmies?:-P) - I think many of us share a similar journey.
Found it on reddit alternatives. Want to desperately get off reddit! Lemmy was too complicated
This post just turned up on Lemmy.
And piefed is fine?
If so that's really good news, a lot of people around here seem to interpret "Lemmy is too complicated" as meaning "anything decentralized and not big tech is just too difficult'. I suspect the reality of the matter is that Lemmy is just not extremely user friendly.
PieFed's sign-up wizard, and always-available features basically solves the issue if content discoverability for a new user account.
Want to block content? Keyword filters and other blocks that Lemmy lacks.
Interested in a subject? Bam, you are now subscribed to it, or if you ever want later, the Topic/Feeds are always there for you. In Lemmy people complain bitterly about having to wade daily through huge amounts of furry and anime communities constantly popping up, but on PieFed you never need to browse by All (you can if you want to though).
Hashtags, user and community flairs, polls, PieFed basically took a large laundry list of things that people wished were in Lemmy, and then made most of them in a year rather than decade.
Lemmy looks polished, but it's mainly marketed towards potential new admins to run their own servers, and even that requires large investments of network traffic and attention (especially technical know-how to avoid getting spammed with CSAM or bots slurping up data). PieFed makes most things significantly easier than Lemmy - especially for end-users but also when for admins. e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed and https://slrpnk.net/post/29381524.
I am so glad that you are enjoying PieFed - welcome to the Threadiverse! :-D
Hello from Lemmy!
Question.. Am on old.lemmy.zip - which rules my world as I'm a Redditor from the Olden Days and love the layout.. but I've only been here since the start of October.. Is there a graphic flow chart type thing that shows all the federated sites with a list of the comms on each one?
Uh, I don't know. You can however filter communities by instances on any Piefed community browser and then sort by weekly activity if you want a good overview of weekly users and culture.
The communities are all connected. It doesn't really matter how you access them.
Perhaps someone else can highlight a piefed instance with a WebUI option similar to old Reddit.
Compact mode is very similar to old Reddit.
Does anyone know if there's a https://lemmyverse.net/ equivalent that covers Piefed/Mbin?
Click at the Lemmy logo and you will be able to choose it
Today I learned. Thank you!
Me too!
Thanks! Would be nice to be able to search across communities across the Threadiverse but this is pretty good.
No, but Piefeds built in Community Browser has basically similar functionality.
The key difference is that if your instance doesn't know about it, you won't see it. You need a way to find new communities, whuch is where Lemmyverse.net comes in. Apparently you can change the setting to Piefed or Mbin so it's there, I was just hoping for a single search across everything.
That's true. But a lot of comms are on piefed.social at least.
How about twitter sucks so many racists
I heared about it from r/BuyFromEU and I'm on the road to reduce the use of US services.
Welcome new people! If you're an anarchist, check out https://multiverse.soulism.net/ and https://anarchist.nexus/
I also really love https://quokk.au/. It's slightly more quokka than anarchy themed, but I find the two to make an appealing duo. Seems like a friendly place as well.
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