Why not ? I understand that Piefed.social is the flagship but, no, there are plenty good instances and we also included Pylova (a PieFed fork). So yes and no.

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.

No, sorry!

Lemmy just displays the first image and ignores the rest.

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.

That's ok! I was just curious

Hmm. Obviously compatibility is tough, but I'd say the worst kind of fallback is the "I'm not seeing what other people are seeing, but I don't know what I'm missing and there's nothing to even indicate to be that I am missing anything" version...

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.

If it matters, as a user, I like piefed a lot more than I liked lemmy

May I ask why? No worries if you don’t want to share but I have been running a private instance of lemmy for a while now, what is better about piefed?

Quick backstory: I started on lemmynsfw.com which is still viewable as an archive, but the admin disappeared and the server was redirected to join a piefed instance, fedinsfw.app, which is what you can see I'm on now. The difference was immediate to me.

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.

Hahaha oh this line right here has me rolling, so true

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!

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share all my opinions ehe!