Every time I go to the piefed frontpage I’m blown away by how much more polished it is. It has all the bells and whistles that lemmy is sometimes missing.

Whats the catch? Why aren’t we recommending everyone goes to piefed instead of lemmy?

App support is one thing I can think of.

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It is, but there’s only one way to make Piefed grow, it’s to start getting Piefed communities more active.

    Lemmy covers pretty much all the topics the current Threadiverse is interested in, so at some point posters have to accept to post to smaller communities.

    I’m not saying everyone has to do it, but as OP states that Piefed is more polished, I was surprised

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      Does it really matter when you can access the same content from Piefed? It’s one of fedi’s great strengths that different experiences can be tailored on the same platform.

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              Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.

              Single mod who didn’t want to create a meta posts to ask for more mods.

              But the sidebar does say to DM them if you’re interested in modding. Not wanting a meta post is weird though.

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                Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.

                I just checked the graph, its now 4.26 days.

                Not wanting a meta post is weird though.

                Every time I had a mod refusing meta posts it lead to power tripping. Better safe than sorry

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                  Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I empathize with their plight but it’s what, 0.6% of the Lemmy userbase? I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

                  Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

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                    .world will eventually enable parallel sending

                    But when? I don’t want to openly ask LW admins because the 0.19.9 migration took them a while, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen any time soon. I’ve seen someone mentioning that they might be delaying it due to resources issues, but their resource usage is not going to go down any time soon.

                    aussie.zone

                    It is not only aussie.zone. Reddthat is also hosted in Australia, and then had to add a proxy in Europe to prevent a similar delay: https://reddthat.com/post/37387576/17377718. Lemmy.nz is in a similar case.

                    Lemmy.blahaj.zone is also Australian IIRC, but not sure where the server is hosted. Reddthat is only 429 MAU, but Blahaj is 1171

        • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          23 hours ago

          not to piefed specifically.

          Why not? I’m not saying to move everything, but a few communities to Piefed could be nice. A few to Mbin too to keep everyone happy.

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        23 hours ago

        It doesn’t matter, true. We can see every comments in a crossposted post. But on the other hand Blaze is also right. :)

        I told him the same thing about its lemmy repport that i wished something less lemmy centric. :)

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          I told him the same thing about its lemmy repport that i wished something less lemmy centric. :)

          With our current situation, it’s just that most of the things are going to happen on Lemmy. New app update? it’s a Lemmy app. New monthly active user milestone reached? Lemmy is probably the main reason.

          Hopefully things will get more balanced over time, but we can’t expect a perfect 1/3 split of posts between the three platforms.