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  • I don't know what piefed is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. XD

    But otherwise, yes, there's only so many times one can try to explain reality to tankie cultists.

    • Lemmy is developed by tankies though, after being kicked off of Reddit and going out and making their own (federated) replacement.

      PieFed is a forum software developed by anti-alternative-facts-ers, which also has many more features than Lemmy despite being far newer, owing its development speed to it being in Python rather than the difficult language of Rust that most developers avoid. Examples include categories of communities (like multi-reddits), which are user customizable and shareable, and combination together of all comments from every cross-post, which helps deal with the fragmentation effect inherent in federated forums, and flairs (user and post), and polls, etc. It's great!

      Read more, or try it out firsthand at the European-based PieFed.social (primary instance where all the features are tested out first) or PieFed.World (run by Lemmy.world team) or others - once you see it you'll forever think of Lemmy as being far behind.

      Best of all is that PieFed features aim at putting power into the hands of users to make more informed decisions - e.g. democratization of moderation and putting the community sidebar text at the bottom of every post in the web view - while in contrast Lemmy, owing to its tankie background, has ended up more authoritian than Reddit itself was (e.g. there is a modlog in Lemmy but no modmail, no notification of a moderation event, no method of appeal or even to ask questions, and you can't even DM someone when the name of the account that removed your content simply says "mod" - it didn't always used to be that way btw, that was a feature that Lemmy specifically added, to obfuscate the name of the mod, even while a modmail still does not exist yet).

      Lemmy is primarily developed with instance admins in mind to run their own Reddit 2.0 however they like, while PieFed provides more features to end-users - it even has several that not only Lemmy but even Reddit itself lacks!

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