Un moderated or poorly moderated communities can also be problematic in their own right. Not to mention creating all these unused communities. Posting all these bot posts to those communities. It grows the local database, for no real purpose. Just the hope that maybe they could catch someone to come in and contribute to the community? Does the good outweigh the bad? And then it leads to assessments somewhat like yours. Of large bot presence. Which if you were looking to grow communities. That sort of thing is generally seen as a detriment. Maybe they think or are looking to try to help. But again I just question it. The efficacy of it. I would rather see fewer but more active maintains communities than a bunch of ghostcoms. Magically getting posts but no engagement. But that's just me LOL. And if I put up my own instance I will probably keep it quite tight.

I don't have anything against post bots explicitly or modding multiple communities. I have two. However there should be limits

There's a ton of communities, which have like no or next to no posts - e.g. https://piefed.world/c/wednesday, https://piefed.world/c/snl.

A lot of the content there seems populated exclusively by bots - e.g. https://piefed.world/c/tech, https://piefed.world/c/shit, https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles, etc.

TenForward is an excellent example: compare the PW version at https://piefed.world/c/tenforward to the LW version and there simply is no comparison at all.

It just overall looks like a test that was never finished. Perhaps Rimu scared the LW admin team away. If so, maybe the PyLova development could be an option?

PieFed/PyLova definitely looks ready to be used to make a new instance - if you take the plunge, then I wish you good fortune in that endeavor!

That said, PieFed.World in particular always struck me as an unfinished test project - probably bc the Topic Feeds at https://piefed.world/topics are so bare-bones. That is one of the most-requested features that PieFed offers but PW seems to basically ignore them?

Anyway from Voyager you'll never see them in any case:-).

Settings Export & Import should work perfectly as well, definitely from Lemmy to PieFed though I never tried that in reverse.

You should really enjoy it!! Anyway, you always have your Lemmy to fall back onto... like during maintenance or whatever.

I'm not advocating for Reddit, just trying to help you understand that you are not seeing their actual experience. Many people avoid r/all (actually r/popular) like the plague, and use old-reddit with RES (I've never touched that one personally but supposedly it's nice or sth?), which they are comfortable and familiar with.

Yes, they might be banned and if so then perhaps they'll come here, or possibly just as likely leave social media behind altogether. Reading books, touching grass, there are better ways to spend one's time, and for news perhaps an RSS reader could be preferable anyway.

Voyager offers a much nicer UX. Though then 90% of PieFed extra features aren't workable, with 100% of them being inaccessible from within the app.

This place is hella confusing to non-technical normies.

Those categories of communities, which are user-customizable and shareable Topic Feeds, are also hella useful, even if only to help you discover communities that you want to subscribe to in your existing account.

Realistically, PieFed is running circles around Lemmy in terms of features. And now PyLova is moving even faster than it (but they mostly tend to share).

A lot of these Reddit comments are from people that seemed to put zero effort into understanding anything. Or perhaps they simply aren't expressing their thoughts well: like those organized Topic Feeds are not difficult to use at all, making one wonder if they didn't bother poking around to click on menus enough to know that they are there, or realize that by subscribing to communities that they like, their main Subscribed Feed would be affected. Such people not coming here may be no great loss?

In contrast, I tried out Summit that easily looks to be the most beautiful Lemmy app that I've seen, but there were so many times when I had to switch back to the browser web UI to get something done that I gave it up in favor of Voyager.

Which despite being one of the most fully-featured ones, still has a ton of limitations.

I suppose I understand, it's a chicken and egg problem where app devs don't want to spend unlimited time working on an app that only like 100 people are ever going to use, while at the same time people aren't going to come to the Threadiverse if the UI/UX is poor.

Even with all the blocks I've made it just seems to be a bunch of toxic left wing people calling each other fascist because of some minor difference in opinion

lol