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.
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
Great, thanks for the intro.
I guess I’ll play around a bit for a few days first. Try and get up to speed.
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.
I had similar experience. Think about it as emailing someone but on social network. Ppl can use different domains to register (piefed, lemmy, their country servers), but they are meant to communicate with each other.
What however got me is the number of android apps and none of them was pleasant for me. Therefore I stick with web interface and/or log onto phtn.app web page with your account and maybe that ui will suit you best.
Have you tried https://blorpblorp.xyz/home ?
Regarding your question about communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
This is a good starter explanation https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277
Couldn’t find piefed app in play store. Is there one or is anything coming up?
You can also check piefed wiki. I’ll update it this week. :)
There are multiple apps you can use for PieFed. My favorite is Voyager which has experimental support for PieFed right now but works quite well.
How do you access piefed/lemmy? Do you have preferred client app?
I must say I tried several apps and I find the web ui of piefed to be neatest. Next thing with very nice design is phtn.app. Any opinions on that?
Thanks, the card view shows links as images, which I don’t like. And compact modes are not nice either.
I most often use PieFed as a PWA on my phone. As for lemmy, I tend to use Boost the most often (Boost also supports PieFed).
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?
I complete skavau reply. :)
Piefed support two thing that reduce fragmentation : multicommunities and merge crosspost (only those with a link.)
There is 2 kind of multicommunity :
- topic managed by admin & staff = instance flavor.
- feed managed by you & users. They can be private or public.
What do it mean ?
multicommunity
If there is several community (eg : !europe@feddit.org, !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com …), you can regroup them into a multicommunity.
- Topic managed by piefed.social’s staff : https://piefed.social/topic/regional/europe
- feed managed by users, here skavau : https://piefed.social/f/europe
The upcoming version of Lemmy v1 will support multicommunity.
crosspost
If you share a link, as https://www.lemonde.fr/ in !europe@feddit.org and crosspost it to !france@jlai.lu piefed will meege comment from !europe@feddit.org & !france@jlai.lu
Thanks. When should I use topic vs feed? Can I follow both?
You can follow both. The topic are curated by admins & staff, so we share what we like. Feed are your own selection private or public.
Imo, the best way to understand because it is not clear when you discover federation for the first time, is creating your own private multicommunity : feed.
You can tailor the timeline to your need by creating your own feed or following our selection & user selection.
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.
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
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.
Gotcha. What’s the difference between a normal upvote and a federated one here?
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.
Thanks a lot!
