From the features listed alone, it seems like PieFed is ambitious to improve the Fediverse forum idea to a level of the old Reddit experience most of us knew.
I kinda wish there was a Fediverse app that would include all of the communities and all content (except that which you block/blacklist/disable yourself) is visible. I like the concept of Matrix, where you sign up to the general service by picking a suitable server, then you can freely choose your app of choice - e.g. people on Element/Element X can still interact with those using FluffyChat. This is vastly different to the usual monopoly a messenger has over its userbase and - IMHO - a great step in the right direction for user friendly applications and processes. Since I want the Fediverse idea to succeed, I will try out PieFed. Since snooting mentioned that it’s supported by Voyager, I’ll try that. Thanks for your efforts!
I see it the same way. The Lemmy developers have made decisions based on their ideals, and PieFed looked at it and said “well, what if we had better ways of filtering out the bad stuff”? Some people don’t think anything should be filtered out, but I disagree with them. Heck, even the Lemmy devs disagree, as they are absolutely the most heavy handed with bans on their instance. The modlog is wild and crazy.
Anyway, I’ve checked over the settings and this PieFed doesn’t block much of anything, but there are still some nice little things that I like compared to Lemmy.
The community organisation and post & comment features seem rather rich too. I like that the developer strives for enabling tags, hashtags and flairs the users can group and customize.
It being part of the Fediverse means that it also can interact with Lemmy, hopefully better than Kbin/Mbin (communities hosted there where often not visible for Lemmy users or had image fetching errors). I hope it’ll be less authoritarian than .ml instances too, I can’t say much about the lead developer of Lemmy dessa, seems like they develop a few other apps that don’t really have any political leaning - but the others are very hard AuthLeft and very vocal about it. In an ideal online world, we’d see opinions from both sides of the spectrum as long as they follow common guidelines and rules, sort of an etiquette. Sort of like me being able to buy a fairly “normal” centrist newspaper or one by a more left-leaning or a more conservative/right-leaning news outlet. Let’s hope PieFed is more centrist - I like to keep things perfectly balanced.
PieFed can’t control the content or political leanings of the users, but it has tools to sort of keep it professional, if you will. If someone shares a crazy conspiracy theory, a slur filled racist rant, etc. it’ll get downvotes, and beyond a certain limit (in user settings I think?) the comment will be collapsed. I’m happy to not see or read anything like that.
I’ve also seen a few users with the “low quality” tag next to their name and I like that. They aren’t hidden, but it cues me up to read what they’re saying with caution.
Now we just need photo uploads in comments for SOTDs! That’s supposed to be coming in a future version.
Sure, but the system in place seems like a good idea to combat hateful and batshit insane posts or comments. Unfortunately the Android app I have to use for now doesn’t support the user tags it seems, except a symbol for new accounts. I have to admit that a key feature I liked in Raccoon was customizable user tags. Apart from the normal ones (OP, mod, admin, etc.) I also had one each for bigots, spammers and for general idiots. The picture support will be necessary for our hobby too. I’m curious to see how it’ll develop…
From the features listed alone, it seems like PieFed is ambitious to improve the Fediverse forum idea to a level of the old Reddit experience most of us knew. I kinda wish there was a Fediverse app that would include all of the communities and all content (except that which you block/blacklist/disable yourself) is visible. I like the concept of Matrix, where you sign up to the general service by picking a suitable server, then you can freely choose your app of choice - e.g. people on Element/Element X can still interact with those using FluffyChat. This is vastly different to the usual monopoly a messenger has over its userbase and - IMHO - a great step in the right direction for user friendly applications and processes. Since I want the Fediverse idea to succeed, I will try out PieFed. Since snooting mentioned that it’s supported by Voyager, I’ll try that. Thanks for your efforts!
I see it the same way. The Lemmy developers have made decisions based on their ideals, and PieFed looked at it and said “well, what if we had better ways of filtering out the bad stuff”? Some people don’t think anything should be filtered out, but I disagree with them. Heck, even the Lemmy devs disagree, as they are absolutely the most heavy handed with bans on their instance. The modlog is wild and crazy.
Anyway, I’ve checked over the settings and this PieFed doesn’t block much of anything, but there are still some nice little things that I like compared to Lemmy.
The community organisation and post & comment features seem rather rich too. I like that the developer strives for enabling tags, hashtags and flairs the users can group and customize.
It being part of the Fediverse means that it also can interact with Lemmy, hopefully better than Kbin/Mbin (communities hosted there where often not visible for Lemmy users or had image fetching errors). I hope it’ll be less authoritarian than .ml instances too, I can’t say much about the lead developer of Lemmy dessa, seems like they develop a few other apps that don’t really have any political leaning - but the others are very hard AuthLeft and very vocal about it. In an ideal online world, we’d see opinions from both sides of the spectrum as long as they follow common guidelines and rules, sort of an etiquette. Sort of like me being able to buy a fairly “normal” centrist newspaper or one by a more left-leaning or a more conservative/right-leaning news outlet. Let’s hope PieFed is more centrist - I like to keep things perfectly balanced.
Thanks for approving my application btw! 👍🏻
PieFed can’t control the content or political leanings of the users, but it has tools to sort of keep it professional, if you will. If someone shares a crazy conspiracy theory, a slur filled racist rant, etc. it’ll get downvotes, and beyond a certain limit (in user settings I think?) the comment will be collapsed. I’m happy to not see or read anything like that.
I’ve also seen a few users with the “low quality” tag next to their name and I like that. They aren’t hidden, but it cues me up to read what they’re saying with caution.
Now we just need photo uploads in comments for SOTDs! That’s supposed to be coming in a future version.
Sure, but the system in place seems like a good idea to combat hateful and batshit insane posts or comments. Unfortunately the Android app I have to use for now doesn’t support the user tags it seems, except a symbol for new accounts. I have to admit that a key feature I liked in Raccoon was customizable user tags. Apart from the normal ones (OP, mod, admin, etc.) I also had one each for bigots, spammers and for general idiots. The picture support will be necessary for our hobby too. I’m curious to see how it’ll develop…