I think there may only be tens of us using the piefed.world interface. It very much is an afterthought. Even the official Mastodon account linked to it hasn't posted in a couple years lol. I have a piefed.social account as well. Though honestly I'm considering trying to spin up my own small personal instance.

PW has nearly 900 users total of which 200 are active as of this past month - it's small but solid.

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!

The post bots are a new thing of the last few months. Look at the mod on almost all those communities. Came in and set up shop a while back. To take advantage of the low activity.

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

So long as they are labeled as such, I have no issues with it. The intent seems more than clearly to aid rather than deceive.

It's not even about deception. Although deception starts off as aid generally before they are deceived. Hence deception. Realistically an individual cannot properly moderate that many communities. Not even people I know who are on disability and spend all day online can do that and still remain mentally healthy. It's just not a good thing.

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 suppose those instance admins are the ones who should have the most say about what they do or do not allow on their instance. But then yeah, we each also have our own choices to make in response, like whether to block or not. I don't, but then again I'm effectively doing it by another means where I browse by Subscribed and simply never subscribe to those coms:-).

Made me chuckle

Stockholm syndrome to the max

Thank you for the "feedback" ️

(The title of the OP...)

Or they've already invested effort into figuring out ways around it - like old reddit+RES. Whereas for Lemmy there is less content overall and it's a change that they haven't yet seen the value in making the switch.

And also Stockholm syndrome to the max:-)

I'm commenting from https://old.piefed.zip , the experience is very similar to old.reddit