Quick backstory: I started on lemmynsfw.com which is still viewable as an archive, but the admin disappeared and the server was redirected to join a piefed instance, fedinsfw.app, which is what you can see I’m on now. The difference was immediate to me.
I like the default UI a lot better, that’s probably the biggest thing. It’s intuitive and doesn’t feel like I’m looking at a worse version of Craigslist. I know that sounds minor, but I think a lot of people around here drastically underestimate the learning curve involved with adopting the fediverse at all, and coming onto a more intuitive and better-looking page helps a lot.
On lemmy, it took me a long time to learn about alternative UIs, and then I had to log into the alternative UI I liked separately and then always remember to go to photon.whateverlemmy.com, and links might not open in the correct UI or in the UI I was logged into, it was kind of a headache. So when I was trying to encourage other people to join, I had to, like, explain all of this to them, and it was just a no-go for 99.99% of people. It also just made linksharing to my friends off-site much harder.
I’ve interacted with a few people from mastodon on here which is new to me, I love having the wider pool of people available.
Some things that I would never give up now as a porno artist: tagging, that’s HUGE, and that the default UI is a lot more image-focused while the default lemmy UI is a little more old-reddit looking. omg people can follow me on piefed!
The dev is also really responsive and improving things a lot faster than the lemmy devs were (no shade there, we’re all in different places in life, but it does matter) and now very recently he’s added multi-image support which was a huge deal for me. The gallery support is a liiiiiittle cumbersome at this stage, but it’s 1. new and 2. again super worth it for the things that piefed comes with otherwise.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share all my opinions ehe!