What features made you choose PieFed over Mbin/Lemmy?
What features do they have that you’d like to see in PieFed?

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Not really a feature but I like the general look and feel of PieFed. I think the user interface feels polished even though it is still quite early in development.

mbin on the other hand just doesn’t feel as comfortable to use. The layout feels unnatural and the buttons are in unexpected places. Also I really dislike the unconventional terms such as “magazine” and “boost”. (I know they came from kbin)

I hope PieFed will keep the UI clean while adding new features. I am quite confident with the devs based on what I have seen so far.

Thanks for all the hardworking devs providing such wonderful applications.

Edit:
Expanding on what I like about PieFed:

  • The "new communities" and "active communities" section on the sidebar are more useful than I expected.
  • Killer feature: Grouping cross posts and viewing comments from different posts in the same view
  • Voting is private. This gives me the peace of mind when I downvote a post from a snowflake.
  • Instance blocking that works
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    votings never private when someone can spin up a friendica instance and see it all, or since its activityhub anyone could make an app exclusively to see downvoters.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    It's private because there are essentially two of you, and your vote is the anonymous you.

    https://piefed.social/post/205362

    "PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account ..."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I bet it would be fairly easy to match comments with upvotes/downvotes and get a pretty good idea of who's 'anonymous' accounts are pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I rarely down vote, but when I do, I don't leave a comment. I can't be the only one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah but I bet you upvote or downvote other comments in the thread around the same time you make comments.

    That activity would make an educated guess pretty easy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Interesting. It would probably also depend on the number of other people downvoting and commenting. Also this assumes that someone consistently downvotes and comments on one post.

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