I'm just using the website. You can go to https://piefed.social/topics and it groups posts across instances by topic.

I think the idea is that new people would post in weekly threads, but there's no real directing users to that. Did you get directed to that community when you arrived? I can easily schedule posts if necessary.

Understandable when some mods go down hard on people who break the unwritten rules.

It's good to have options and try out different clients to see what you like best

We are ok. The admin is fighting scrapers.

As mention the admin is fighting scrapers which is blocking some larger instances. I still have an account

It's good to see what is out there. Helps you get used to different views and let's you keep using the verse if an instance goes down

Thanks for the clarification!

PieFed's sign-up wizard, and always-available features basically solves the issue if content discoverability for a new user account.

Want to block content? Keyword filters and other blocks that Lemmy lacks.

Interested in a subject? Bam, you are now subscribed to it, or if you ever want later, the Topic/Feeds are always there for you. In Lemmy people complain bitterly about having to wade daily through huge amounts of furry and anime communities constantly popping up, but on PieFed you never need to browse by All (you can if you want to though).

Hashtags, user and community flairs, polls, PieFed basically took a large laundry list of things that people wished were in Lemmy, and then made most of them in a year rather than decade.

Lemmy looks polished, but it's mainly marketed towards potential new admins to run their own servers, and even that requires large investments of network traffic and attention (especially technical know-how to avoid getting spammed with CSAM or bots slurping up data). PieFed makes most things significantly easier than Lemmy - especially for end-users but also when for admins. e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed and https://slrpnk.net/post/29381524.

Compact mode is very similar to old Reddit.

Click at the Lemmy logo and you will be able to choose it

No, but Piefeds built in Community Browser has basically similar functionality.