I'm new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it's pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I'm not super savvy but couldn't they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I'm wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Yes and no, this topic comes up fairly frequently, and generally...nobody knows the best solution forward LMAO

piefed.social is a Lemmy "competitor" and is intended to be fully interoperable, but in practice it hasn't matured yet and it's interoperability with the Lemmy-verse is decent but has its quirks

But a big thing there is they have a multi sub type feature to combine comms like that

But some people also like the multiple comms, because they can have different viewpoints and culture.

Like lemmy.ml is a huge Tankie instance and their c/memes comms moderation skew towards censoring of comments and posts critical of Russia/China/NK and allows political memes

Where as c/meme on .world have banished most political memes directing them to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world instead

[–] freamon@preferred.social 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

PieFed is just a Fediverse platform that aims to inter-op with Lemmy in much the same way that it aims to inter-op with any other Group-based platform (MBIN, PeerTube, NodeBB, Wordpress).

Lemmy's "quirks" are the reason why your account won't see Polls from MBIN, or channels from PeerTube, or posts from NodeBB, or backfilled content from Wordpress.

It's not my intent to criticise Lemmy, but these are verifiable problems, whereas it doesn't seem fair to criticise PieFed for problems that you can't clearly remember.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I'd rather not them be thinking it's a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well i think Piefed is pretty close to being a drop-in remplacement.

It's true there are several missing components. however, i recall it was the same for Lemmy 1,5 year ago. And Piefed is catching up in few months.

How close ? Let's sum up :)

On some part, Piefed clearly outmatch Lemmy on several area :

admin/moderation board
notification (the ability to chose a post/comment/community to follow/unfollow)
feed (multi-community)
federation with the fediverse
tag (to find more related content based on keyword)

maybe more thing that i don't know about

some part are missing for Piefed :

mobile app support (but the web mobile is good + coming soon)
lacks of theme
cross-post
notification board (repport/post/coms/idea aren't separated)
comment/post/moderation view
media management (lemmy doesn't have one yet, iceshrimp is the best on that area)

There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The no app thing is a deal breaker for a lot of people

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

It's not a straight deal breaker for me, but it's a pretty big barrier, I just can't leave Boost lol 😔

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

True, i know that users prefers mobile app over web mobile maily due to its navigation.

Anyway two mobile app are upcoming :

pferd (fork of thunder)
interstellar (to confirm)

For me, the most deal breaker are post/comment view and mod view + notification board. Because as a mod/user, i use them a lot. They are all in development, it's good, it will take some time. :)

Over time i noticed that i prefer the mobile version of Fediverse software. I use the web mobile version for IceShrimp, Lemmy, Piefed. The only app i use is mastodon (fedilab)

The web mobile provide me a better experience : lot features, better sync, mod tool, comment view...it depends a lot on app UI : swipe controle, draft, create post button, filters...

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