A continuation of 0G post https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900

On any of the donation threads where it came up and he replied to it, the most he ever did was some half hearted corporate PR “apology” (ironic)

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      They both offer advantages that the other does not. The funny thing is that for PieFed, the advantages tend to be “features not available on Lemmy”, while for Lemmy it’s “having to change away from what I was already used to”, which is going to forcibly be changed out from under you regardless, the next time a major UI update occurs and your instance upgrades to it.

      I almost want to dare you to just make a PieFed account and play with it for an hour… except you might be better to wait, given the high likelihood that you’ll be strongly tempted to switch:-).

      In truth, I fall back to my Discuss.Online account often, in order to use the search function, which on PieFed is pretty lackluster. Then again, the rest of the 99.9% of the time I use my PieFed main, so there’s that:-).

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          To be fair, the entire workflow of using PieFed is different than using Lemmy. It took me a whole week to switch, and much longer than that to refine my processes.

          Like one thing you can do on PieFed, but not on Lemmy, is to ask for Notifications to be sent to you. For posts, for comments, for entire communities, for users, almost anything you want (okay so not an entire instance, that would be insane!:-) - and you can even stop receiving notifications for your own content as well, which is a HUGE advantage over Lemmy. I almost left Lemmy entirely when people from Hexbear and Lemmygrad kept pinging me for WEEKS and WEEKS on end, long after I ceased responding. To be fair that’s kinda what those communities do, but I did not know that at the time, and when browsing posts via All there is no way to see the community side-bar. Lemmy offers a TERRIBLE experience to someone who doesn’t already know how things work on the Threadiverse.:-( Btw, PieFed shows the community side-bar below every single post.:-) Anyway, for a community that is rarely posted to, or that you moderate, this is a great way to stay abreast of every single post.

          Another difference is that on Lemmy, in order to find enough content I mostly browsed All, which meant that I had to constantly block communities that I had no interest in - like sports, individual geographic locations, etc. And that process never ends. I suppose the Threadiverse has gotten bigger over the last year so I’m not sure if that’s as big a deal as it used to be. Anyway, PieFed walks a new user through signing up to many communities, but more importantly the categories of communities allow for a continual viewing of so much more besides.

          I want to be clear there: PieFed made my “Subscribed” feed actually usable, bc I can now do things like block content from e.g. c/news, yet still see News and Politics anytime I want. I’m saying that I can both have my cake and also eat it too!

          I too used to prefer the Lemmy UI. But now that I see what PieFed is offering that Lemmy never will, I don’t anymore.:-)

          (Mostly, although I do miss certain things like seeing both up and downvotes listed separately - but PieFed is changing all the time and also app support is being added, plus the devs are extremely responsive, so if that or any feature is really something that people wanted, it would be prioritized and created very very quickly!:-)