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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

how does lemmy/piefed deal with fragmented communities?

e.g. I'd like to make a post about a very niche hobby, but they are split in even smaller communities (many with same name in different servers).

Do you just post in the bigger one? Is it common to cross post?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    e.g. I’d like to make a post about a very niche hobby, but they are split in even smaller communities (many with same name in different servers).

    Do you just post in the bigger one? Is it common to cross post?

    Yes, usually post in the largest one - we have a lot of people that try to fold together communities into one by closing inactive communities and redirecting. Piefed automatically folds together linkposts which is the equivalent of crossposts. There's no crosspost function akin to Reddit though, if that's what you mean.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Hello! I was curious as to what's so different between Piefed and Reddit (I come from there), and if this is an European-based social :) Also, are there any plans to bring it on Play Store? How and why was this project born? Thank you in advance and have a great day

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Piefed is open source software that anyone can spin-up. It's not a single website as such. You're currently on piefed.social which is I believe hosted in Europe, but you can interact with other Piefed servers from here. You can see communities and users from piefed.ca for instance.

    The whole point is that its a federated structure.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Gotcha. What's the difference between a normal upvote and a federated one here?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Normal upvotes don't federate out to other servers, they only apply locally. This is because ActivityPub doesn't have private voting, so they can be seen by community moderators and instance admins.

    So you would untick that if you want privacy here, but your vote score won't apply on other servers.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I know i am late but how can i follow a Person in Mastodon or Thread?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    anyone got recommendations for themes for customizing piefed. I didn't like most offical themes except for Irix-1988 for being both retro and closer to lemmy defaults, but its too bright and its sometimes hard to read, especially when due to markdown, sometimes the text will turn white.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

    Hi I’m new. I work in design, I have a degree in multimedia, and the whole concept - sorry to say - seems to be a jumbled up mess.

    What’s lemmy? Is this lemmy. What’s piefed then, why are there multiple different communities for each topic ,

    It’s not clear.

    I don’t mean to insult people, I’m delighted there’s an alternative started, but I think it needs to be overhauled a bit.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If you can help with redesign the interface, that would help a lot!

    We were discussing the signup page recently, feel free to comment there: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1735061/should-we-revisit-the-instance-picker-to-have-an-easier-default-choice#post_replies

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    What’s lemmy? Is this lemmy. What’s piefed then, why are there multiple different communities for each topic ,

    Lemmy and Piefed are two separately designed open-source Reddit software that anyone can spin up and host. The devs of both Lemmy and Piefed have their own instances, but there are many more.

    People host their own Lemmy or Piefed servers and can federate with other servers to see the content on there.

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