I’m new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it’s pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I’m not super savvy but couldn’t they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I’m wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

  • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    9 hours ago

    Well i think Piefed is pretty close to being a drop-in remplacement.

    It’s true there are several missing components. however, i recall it was the same for Lemmy 1,5 year ago. And Piefed is catching up in few months.

    How close ? Let’s sum up :)

    On some part, Piefed clearly outmatch Lemmy on several area :

    • admin/moderation board
    • notification (the ability to chose a post/comment/community to follow/unfollow)
    • feed (multi-community)
    • federation with the fediverse
    • tag (to find more related content based on keyword)

    maybe more thing that i don’t know about

    some part are missing for Piefed :

    • mobile app support (but the web mobile is good + coming soon)
    • lacks of theme
    • cross-post
    • notification board (repport/post/coms/idea aren’t separated)
    • comment/post/moderation view
    • media management (lemmy doesn’t have one yet, iceshrimp is the best on that area)

    There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)

      • cm0002@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        It’s not a straight deal breaker for me, but it’s a pretty big barrier, I just can’t leave Boost lol 😔

      • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        True, i know that users prefers mobile app over web mobile maily due to its navigation.

        Anyway two mobile app are upcoming :

        • pferd (fork of thunder)
        • interstellar (to confirm)

        For me, the most deal breaker are post/comment view and mod view + notification board. Because as a mod/user, i use them a lot. They are all in development, it’s good, it will take some time. :)

        Over time i noticed that i prefer the mobile version of Fediverse software. I use the web mobile version for IceShrimp, Lemmy, Piefed. The only app i use is mastodon (fedilab)

        The web mobile provide me a better experience : lot features, better sync, mod tool, comment view…it depends a lot on app UI : swipe controle, draft, create post button, filters…