3d ago

PieFed right now feels like early reddit and I missed it

If it gets big, there will be a lot more moderation and the 3 letter organisations wanting to censor certain things. But right now, it feels like a small prestine community and I love it

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Hopefully decentralization will prevent it from enshittifying. Time will tell if anyone finds a way to ruin it, but I agree - I really like it here!
- That is hope. Without any central control. People should be able to frequent and flow to better alternatives. Not being beholden to shitty mods and admins. Though there are a few small cracks in the concept. Not everyone has the knowhow or resources to host etc. But that's a bar that's low enough to be acceptable at this point.
  
  And a lot of effort has been put into lowering that bar still significantly further, to allow for more people to participate, even at the level of running their own personal instance.
- For that to happen we need to kill Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world, they are the two most centralised instances and host the majority of content.
  Removing them would split things up a bit more evenly now that the instance landscape has diversified.
  
  I read in a thread that lemmy.ca admins are reluctant to defederate from ml because ml admins might deny pull requests and refuse to offer support.
  It is deeply unsettling to me that one instance can hold other instances hostage when the fediverse is specifically designed to prevent that sort of thing.
  
  And people will just gravitate towards two or three others. This isn’t how you fix the problem.
- I think we REALY NEED account migration tools. If let's say 5 instances get big to cover 80-90% of all content (together) then those instances will get infiltrated. There will be venture capital trying to get in. And there will be government censorship/propaganda. The way to fix this is for people to leave those instances. But they will never do that if it means they loose all their posts/comments/likes/etc. The best thing the fediverse can do is encourage users to move instances frequently.

It's also nice that lemmy can see piefed posts.

I remember and miss early reddit too :D

We just need an Old Piefed theme. :)

Feels exactly the same as lemmy to me. 🤷‍♀️
- Yet it's good to have some technical diversity. Makes the eco system more resilient.
- Are you using an app?
  
  I've tried both app and web.

Is there a piefed specific client that isn't the webapp? How do people commonly access the content?
- Voyager works very well, it's the same experience as with their Lemmy integration (but no Piefed specific features, for that I used the mobile WebUI).
- I'm using Boost for both Lemmy and PieFed

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