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PieFed, Kbin died but lives on in its fork Mbin, Sublinks didn’t pan out but was started (the PHP code is FOSS), nodeBB, and flarum.

You may also occasionally see posts from Friendica or Mastodon that also use the ActivityPub protocol, though the barriers to sharing those with the Threadiverse are somewhat high.

Fwiw, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

I for one am extremely happy to see PieFed flourish, and one of my chief reasons to move to it 8 months ago was specifically to block lemmy.ml.

That said, I have no desire to “cancel” anyone at all - and the Lemmy devs are worthy of respect for their accomplishments, even as they also deserve some criticisms for the way that they run their instance.

I love how the future allows PieFed and Lemmy - and Mbin, nodebb, flarum, friendica, mastodon, pixelfed, etc. - to exist altogether in the Fediverse, without needing any of the others to die out. I even maintain accounts on both PieFed and Lemmy instances, as each currently offers features that the other lacks.

(also, if some of the lemmy instances were to be cancelled, then all of their users would come over to here… think about that for a moment, is that a desirable outcome to you? :-P)

And instantly we arrive at the problem with these kinds of requests: how to exclude certain kinds of people, but only the right certain kinds of people, and preferably with no effort on our part?

I for one have yet to find a way.

And Admiral Patrick on the instance dubvee.org, but it is regional for the state of West Virginia in the USA (tho he might be willing to share his blocked list?).

Hrm, interesting. This seems a strongly minority opinion though: people enjoy talking, whether it be focused on non-anonymous user-centric short-form content like Mastodon or Friendica, or topic-focused threaded forums like Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed + nodebb + flarum.

But if you mean only the implementation, you could very well be correct, knowing so much more than I about such. “Most people” simply want stuff delivered to them for free, not really thinking about how it gets done. I appreciate that you actually take the time to care:-).

I will add that I for one have no desire to visit a non-closed social network, such as 4chan, bc the amount of spam and trash seems likely to be insurmountable. That said, we need not be limited by what Reddit would do, and that is actually one of the chief things that I appreciate about PieFed - that it is moving beyond what Reddit offered, and is desiring to continue much further along those lines, rather than convert into purely profit making.

Your points seem phrased unnecessarily adversarially. Flairs are a brand-new feature, but if it helps, polls were added a year ago and those federate - not to Lemmy of course that lacks them entirely despite repeated requests to add them for many years, but to other federated platforms that have them e.g. Mastodon.

I’ve always disliked the spirit of “anonymous voting”, and am glad that they discontinued that.

I do not see how what you are saying is all that different from Lemmy.

It is easy to criticize from afar - it is hard to actually build something. But PieFed is managing!

It reminds me of DMV.social’s shutdown, and for similar reasons (admin feeling overwhelmed). I don’t recall how big that one was though.

Thunder is coming, but for now only Interstellar is official iirc (last I saw Thunder support was only available as a fork of the code).

The web interface is great though.

Although defederations are an issue. Sopuli for instance blocks both Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml - which imho is very much a good thing.:-)

Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins!, from four months ago.

Discuss.Online has fantastic admins. The uptime rate there is breathtaking. I hopped across many instances before I settled there.

PieFed is also pretty fantastic too, with so very many features that Lemmy lacks - like flairs (post and user), voting polls, categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, etc.

I disagree. Some of its top recommendations include lemmynsfw.com (I have nothing against NSFW but go there and read their admin posts - they have been struggling for a long time so like lemm.ee not stable), beehaw.org (a fantastic instance but I feel like one not to be casually recommended to people without explanation), hilariouschaos.com (are you fucking kidding me with this neonazi shit?), lemmy.ml (certainly nothing ever controversial can be said about that one - at least not while on that platform!😜😞), and all of this is just what I noticed today but in the past iirc multiple times even it has suggested hexbear.net to me.

So no, I don’t recommend the recommendation of this site to people.

This is one reason (among many, sadly) that people abandoned or never bothered with Mastodon, and chose Bluesky instead. e.g. the latter has a “Catch Up” feed, for the most popular posts from the last 24 hours (so full of AOC stuff today:-). I check this occasionally throughout the week now, even without having an account there, to know what’s going on.

But I vastly prefer the (Threadi-)Verse style of Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed. For comments, I love how they are sortable in terms of popularity of reception, rather than having to scroll endlessly through the list until you arbitrarily decide to stop. And for posts, grouped by community, although PieFed offers categories that bridge those together. So if you want News, on X/Bluesky/Mastodon I suppose you’d have to use an appropriate hashtag or follow a news-type account, while on the Verse (especially PieFed’s categories of communities) it’s just all right there together.

The real answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/35073012