doesn’t feel like I’m looking at a worse version of Craigslist.

Thanks for sharing! Yah that all seems to be major improvements over what is just the basic Lemmy UI. The piefed instances I have seen also just feel and look different visually in a positive way, same for the fedinsfw instance as well. Thank you for sharing your experience, and the detailed response. I appreciate it!

I like the default UI a lot better, that's probably the biggest thing. It's intuitive and doesn't feel like I'm looking at a worse version of Craigslist. I know that sounds minor, but I think a lot of people around here drastically underestimate the learning curve involved with adopting the fediverse at all, and coming onto a more intuitive and better-looking page helps a lot.

On lemmy, it took me a long time to learn about alternative UIs, and then I had to log into the alternative UI I liked separately and then always remember to go to photon.whateverlemmy.com, and links might not open in the correct UI or in the UI I was logged into, it was kind of a headache. So when I was trying to encourage other people to join, I had to, like, explain all of this to them, and it was just a no-go for 99.99% of people. It also just made linksharing to my friends off-site much harder.

I've interacted with a few people from mastodon on here which is new to me, I love having the wider pool of people available.

Some things that I would never give up now as a porno artist: tagging, that's HUGE, and that the default UI is a lot more image-focused while the default lemmy UI is a little more old-reddit looking. The dev is also really responsive and improving things a lot faster than the lemmy devs were (no shade there, we're all in different places in life, but it does matter) and now very recently he's added multi-image support which was a huge deal for me. The gallery support is a liiiiiittle cumbersome at this stage, but it's 1. new and 2. again super worth it for the things that piefed comes with otherwise.

Until the compatibility (or more obvious incompatibility) is written into the Lemmy server and my client, and then that's deployed to my server, I worry that anytime I see something say something that doesn't obviously line up with the photo, I'm going up wonder "are they misinterpreting this picture, or are they seeing a different picture?"

I feel like a better fallback, honestly, would just be a link that says "ALBUM" because if someone is assembling an image gallery, then only showing the first image and discarding the rest is probably never their intention. They picked multiple images for a reason.

In a future version maybe we can insert the images into the post body, or make Lemmy link to the PF version of the post.

When you will register on any PieFed instance, you will arrive on the instance chooser page :

A quin servidor vols unir-te?

(piefed.zip)

And that's where you can decide. There are important info :

• the stability (i forgot, probably a mix of number of admin + uptime)
• the speed with emoji : (related to server location). So don't pick the slow one (snail)

And their description should help you.

Imho, the best way is to create an account because there is so many features that i end up writting a book.

• merging community under the same umbrella : opensource@lemmy.world, opensource@lemmy.ml... = topic (managed by sysadmin), feed (managed by users)
• merging comment from post with the same link (access to comment from the threadiverse AND mastodon, peertube...)
• hashtag (improve discovenability mastodon users can find our content and we can find content related to some to those hashtag)
• flair (community filter)
• blocklist (keyword, domain, flair, user, community...)
• blocklist of domain related to far-right, spam
• tool to detect AI, bot, spam..
• following mastodon users

Mbin is also great and deserve some love.

Dunno but you can request it

On the moderation side, features, PieFed reached a good maturity. We have good tools against bot, and other tools that improve our community. I dunno how other fediverse software handle that.

On UI, we are fine, there is a bottom nav bar, a search bar it works well on mobile. It is visually clean except lengthy community and menu. There is room for improvement compared to Lemmy and Mbin. It will be adressed soon

The main thing that most Lemmy users will miss are mobile app because PieFed API are not complete or app are in developpement. Also that's because PieFed improve and grow at a very fast space.

However, you can use PWA (progressive web app), it works well. Also Lemmy v1.0 will catch up some piefed feature.

If you are interested, you can try it on yunohost or create an alt to try it.