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Piefed is cool! Lemmy is too! What's not cool? Infighting, it drives away new users. Unfortunately this seems a common sentiment... (thelemmy.club)
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[โ€“] 31 points 9 months ago (8 children)

They each are good in different ways. Lemmy's search is superb - far better than Reddit's or especially PieFed's. Though PieFed has solved the community discovery and onboarding issues for new users.

Imho PieFed seems unquestionably better for a new user, whereas Lemmy is typically more suited for an established user of the Threadiverse, unless they want one of the new features that only PieFed offers (i.e., most people don't need to move, especially if they use a mobile app).

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I found Piefed to be fine but, when sharing links, the recipients of my sharing complained about their format. It was several months ago, though, so maybe that's changed.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Sorry I don't understand what you mean here, but in the worst case sharing links has never worked well across the Threadiverse - depending on how you mean that, as in if it is on a different instance than what they are on it will take them instead to that other place where they have no account and so cannot vote or comment - while in the best case PieFed has solved this long-standing issue by auto-translating links to be on the same instance as the sender. I do not know how that work for the recipient - I don't think that it would, or could go back to the above scenario.

    Anyway this is not unique to PieFed, as I thought PieFed was at least no worse than Lemmy in this regard and ever so slightly more functional - at least I've been ecstatically happy (yes I'm odd:-P) with this new capability it offers, as I've been waiting for it since the Rexodus and it is finally here!!!:-)

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The links were functional, but odd looking. The recipients didn't like seeing characters that don't usually show up in links and considered the links suspicious as a result, sometimes not clicking them.

    Not exactly a flaw with the tech, but also a reasonable precaution by the recipients. I'm flattered that you assume my friends are on the fediverse but most of them aren't so trying to explain instances and such to them wouldn't go smoothly.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fair, though I still don't get: why would there be special characters in them?

    e.g. the URL I see this OP on is https://piefed.social/c/fedimemes/p/1727244/piefed-is-cool-lemmy-is-too-what-s-not-cool-infighting-it-drives-away-new-users-unfortu, and the actual OP source is https://thelemmy.club/post/43491796. There a a bunch of numbers there, but not "special characters", so I am not sure where you are getting this from.

    Rimu's link asking if people have questions about the code: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1660885/we-re-here-to-answer-any-questions-you-have-about-piefed-s-code.

    Special features of PieFed: https://join.piefed.social/features/.

    The instance picker: https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser.

    I don't see special characters in any of these?

    If you are using an app, you might look into how safe it is keep using that app? Or perhaps you ran into a special niche case for a particular URL, but I don't really recall seeing special characters in any URLs related to PieFed so I don't think that's a (major) thing?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yea I gotta say, I can tell dessalines must have had pain in the Reddit search and rage coded a fantastic search function for Lemmy lmfao

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago

    Although I wish it was a bit more intuitive and the UI elements worked for it - like the sort functions only work for posts but not comments so sometimes it is difficult to use. For posts though, it's one of the better searchers I've yet seen, especially compared to Reddit ๐Ÿ˜.

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