I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day
https://old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1ijmkc0/make_the_switch_away_from_meta/
Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc. If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.
I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.
I saw this image on Reddit.
And now I am here.
No Lemmy?
Lots of people like piefed more than Lemmy. I haven’t tried it much yet.
PieFed > Lemmy (In my opinion)
I switched to PieFed a while ago, it’s the same thing but better (IMO)
It also doesn’t have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy, and the UX is a lot better (IMO)It also has quite a few nice features that Lemmy lacks. Try out both, see which you like.
what features are worth the increased censorship tools?
Not sure what you’re talking about, but I’d rather support a platform not run by tankie morons. I’ve just been too lazy to make the switch yet.
You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.
…what if I was born in '88 and it’s just my default ‘seasoning number’?
You might want to look into another number.
Fuck that, nazis don’t just get to own numbers. Drown out their noise, make their dogwhistles meaningless.
What censorship tools?
user reputation scores
So he doesn’t like the political “tankie” ideas, so he implemented a social credit score to improve it?
Recommend a mobile app for it?
I use Voyager, it’s great. https://getvoyager.app/
Create your account first on PieFed then login to voyager, there are onbording steps that the mobile app doesn’t yet have.
One of the reasons I like PieFed more is because of good UX, like onbording
Please elaborate. What’s better on Piefed?
It has more features than Lemmy atm, such as custom feeds, flairs or tags or whatever you call them, community moving, etc. (Some of which will also come to Lemmy in v1.0.0): https://join.piefed.social/features/
Since it uses Python and not Rust, it can be developed faster* => faster development and more first time contributions.
Of course it isn’t perfect, it has its downsides as any other software. You might also find it more attractive if you don’t like the Lemmy devs’ political views.
Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.
Though it is a bit opinionated, it’s good to have another alternative in the threadiverse.
Whatever happened to kbin -> mbin? That was another early threadiverse alternative, but I don’t hear much about it anymore.
Some additional features that PieFed has:
- You can create posts with polls.
- Crossposts shows comments from everywhere that something is crossposted to (organized into their own sections)
- Feeds for combining multiple communities into one.
- You can blur images with spoiler tags instead of having to use NSFW.
- You can tag posts and then filter down posts based on those tags within a community.
- You can set a time/date for when something gets posted.
That’s just what I can think of off the top of my head. Otherwise a more complete list can be found here: https://join.piefed.social/features/
All communities with the word ‘meme’ in the name are automatically flagged as low quality but admins can override this on a case-by-case basis.
ok you got me interested
EDIT :
Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.
wait what? I might not have the whole lore but this reads as “communism” is not allowed. I guess that’s a feature for some people.
It also doesn’t have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy
Oh you sweet summer child.
They’re just hard coding keywords to limit reach of usauthoritarianism and queer community.
https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/3230397/-/comment/13562251
You’ll need to login to view content, because they got the original post deleted but it’s still cached on fedia.
From what I remember it was about some discover feed feature or something and they tried to curate it a bit, remove greentexts and stuff that had a ton of posts or something.
How does one “move” to piefed? Do I keep my subscriptions and everything tied to my account?
You pick a piefed server and create an account there. You can transfer subscriptions, but that is not something i have done. Your content posted by your .world account stays with that account however.
I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱
It’s nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.
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Damn. Trashing Lemmy on Lemmy.
That’s freedom.
Piefed over Lemmy?
Literally moved yesterday from reddit when I got banned because I angrily pointed out some fascist was parroting Trump/Russian talking points. Apparently it’s harassment to tell someone their wrong on a public forum
Well let’s add facebook & discord alts as well.
