Not really - while it is part of the Fediverse, it is not Lemmy. In that sense it’s closer to mastodon or pixelfed than a different client, with the key difference being that since the structure/interface are so similar, they’re much more easily integrated with each other, so most likely have already interacted with a lost or comment from a Piefed user on a Lemmy community without even noticing :)
Different Lemmy clients still connect you to the same servers and accounts, while Piefed’s are completely separate - although several Lemmy servers are running their own instance of Piefed too, on a different domain. So, you “access the same servers” in the sense of posts, comments, votes, and potentially server hardware, but not for your account and server software
Not really - while it is part of the Fediverse, it is not Lemmy. In that sense it’s closer to mastodon or pixelfed than a different client, with the key difference being that since the structure/interface are so similar, they’re much more easily integrated with each other, so most likely have already interacted with a lost or comment from a Piefed user on a Lemmy community without even noticing :) Different Lemmy clients still connect you to the same servers and accounts, while Piefed’s are completely separate - although several Lemmy servers are running their own instance of Piefed too, on a different domain. So, you “access the same servers” in the sense of posts, comments, votes, and potentially server hardware, but not for your account and server software