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I'm new here, and have been looking into different communities to subscribe to, it's pretty difficult to decide which ones to subscribe to when theres often the same community on more than one server. (Example: internetisbeautiful on @feddit.de, @lemmy.ee, @lemmy.ml)

I'm not super savvy but couldn't they merge them and have the community hosted as mirrors of each other on both for redundancy? If I'm wrong, do correct me, again, not super savvy and also new here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't my intent to criticize Piefed either, just trying to not over sell it to new users, I'd rather not them be thinking it's a perfect drop-in replacement, and then have a sour taste in their mouth when they run into an issue

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well i think Piefed is pretty close to being a drop-in remplacement.

It's true there are several missing components. however, i recall it was the same for Lemmy 1,5 year ago. And Piefed is catching up in few months.

How close ? Let's sum up :)

On some part, Piefed clearly outmatch Lemmy on several area :

  • admin/moderation board
  • notification (the ability to chose a post/comment/community to follow/unfollow)
  • feed (multi-community)
  • federation with the fediverse
  • tag (to find more related content based on keyword)

maybe more thing that i don't know about

some part are missing for Piefed :

  • mobile app support (but the web mobile is good + coming soon)
  • lacks of theme
  • cross-post
  • notification board (repport/post/coms/idea aren't separated)
  • comment/post/moderation view
  • media management (lemmy doesn't have one yet, iceshrimp is the best on that area)

There are rough edge. Even if some part are missing, it is quite a good experience. In a few months they did lot progress. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

The no app thing is a deal breaker for a lot of people