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I think from the start, the very beginning, Lemmy had bots doing 20 to 40 upvotes on brand new posts spouting Russian Propoganda.
Its really trivial to set up in decentralized networks like this.
giving a shit about “upvotes” seems like such a reddit thing to do.
I’m here for replies and conversation and yes…sometimes getting into arguments with dickheads (and…I’ll be honest…sometimes being said dickhead when I’m having a bad day)
I don’t actually care how many internet strangers are giving me made up internet points or not. It’s always just seemed to me to be vacuous and silly as something to “chase”
its how you know if ppl understood your point
Not always!
Upvotes are a means to an end for site visibility though, which is required to attain conversation in most cases.
I get that. I just mean that I don’t spend time trying to tailor an answer to try to get the most number of upvotes. I’ll say what i want to say, and if people want to upvote me for it or downvote me for it makes no difference whatsoever.
I like being on lemmy and I’ve managed to find piefed instances I have subscribed to so they’re part of my feed, but can anyone tell me if it’s possible to view piefed instances in my “all” view that I’m not subscribed to? I want to be seeing eveeeerything! Thank you!
It is possible. Piefed and Lemmy federate together.
I feel like they should appear automatically in that case, but they’re not.
Piefed communities are less active, and less likely to trend generally.
Ah OK, maybe that’s it - thank you!
Also, “all” is not all. It’s only the communities that others on your instance have subscribed to.
I realised actually that when I search through my federated instances list, not a single piefed instance appears… :/
need to make sure you have selected All when searching. I find piefed instances occasionally, like the TV & movies ones are pretty active I think.
I much prefer the technical architecture of Lemmy over PieFed. I understand the qualms with the core developers, but it feels dirty to move from Rust to Python.
Thats fair, but I don’t make exceptions for that alone. We’re talking about advocates of widespread war and dictatorships.
Is there an iOS app for PieFed?
I suggest Thunder or Voyager on Android, and I know they both have an iOS version. Here is more info about PieFed apps: https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app
Awesome, thanks
Thanks for this post. Found my way into a PieFed account because of it. I find the user experience to be much more pleasant indeed. Especially for finding communities across instances and searching for posts/comments in general.
Welcome! Feel free if you have any questions, there’s !piefed_help@piefed.social
Piefed was super slow it should be an image of a senior outrunning the kid with asthma.
How so?
Took more than 60sec to load images or video. Maybe the instance was at fault but my experience wasn’t great so far.
Wait we’re old now?
Isn’t the average age here like 40?
I thought piefed was a lemmy instance
Different software on the same protocol
That’s so cool. This place is so freaking cool.
No, it’s different software.
Is there a piefed app
Like Lemmy, there is no official app, but plenty of unofficial apps. I suggest Thunder or Voyager
Thunder’s been fucked a couple of weeks. Unless you like marking random comments as read in your inbox, and 5GB of App Data filling your storage for some reason.
A fix to that inbox issue was just merged, and should be implemented in the next release
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1981
And on Android, at least, you can clear the app’s cache whenever you want when it fills up, from the system settings app.
Lemmy has an “official” app. It’s called Jeroba and it’s made by the same devs.
Jerboa, like the rodent
It is “official” only in the sense that its main contributor is the main contributor to Lemmy. They are clear that Jerboa is not “the official Lemmy app”.
It’s the unofficial official app though.
Is there no bewbs or NSFW instances on piefed though? Like not even available to view through Federation. Or am i missing something?
Piefed.zip federates with NSFW instances
which nsfw piefed instances?
They don’t have to be Piefed: https://piefed.zip/c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
Piefed.social, no, but other piefed instances might.
Points? What is this, Reddit?
Tbh even on that level Lemmy was hitting those numbers before Piefed released, and it sure seems like a lot of the Piefed posters are just old Lemmy posters who prefer it.
What I’m getting at is, we don’t have a karma counter. Who gives a puke about “points” on this platform?
People chasing dopamine hits
I have a piefed account and maybe someone can tell me if I’m doing something wrong, , an instance thing, or if it’s a piefed thing, or a weird glitch, but I stopped using it because it kept force-following hundreds of communities for me. When I unsubscribed it would instantly re-subscribe me to them and then add more random communities. I like to be able to scroll by both all to view new stuff but also subscribed and just see stuff I’m interested in, not have my subscribed communities be hundreds of communities with tons of topics I have absolutely no interest in. It was things like niche sports teams, communities for towns on the other side of the globe from me, or stuff like hobbies or TV shows I’ve no interest in. There was no way to filter it to show things I actually cared about. I haven’t logged in in months because I got so frustrated. I feel like an old person who can’t figure out this new fangled tech. I’m 99% sure I wasn’t hacked either because I could hit unsubscribe, refresh, refresh again, and it would re-subscribe.
Check here and see if you’re subscribed to the topics here. Unsubscribe from them.
Ooh, thanks, I will have to look at that list when I get a minute. It’s weird, because most of the stuff I’m subscribed to is stuff I have no interest in and never would have checked a topic saying I am, so I’m curious to see what topics those communities would be related to that I might have clicked interested in. For example, it kept subscribing me to so many sports communities like basketball and football and I have zero interest in anything to do with sports, but I might have clicked an interest in something like outdoors or hiking.
Okay, so you’re the second user who has mentioned this today. You’re right in my opinion.
I’ve specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don’t worry. I don’t think the auto-subscribing to all the communities in a topic is a good idea.
A new piefed.social user is presented with topics that they select an interest in. Each topic is a feed made by site admins, with specific communities in them. Some feeds can be quite large. It currently auto-subscribes you to each community in a feed. So if you pick multiple interests, you can get a very large subscription list. I will forward this on to emphasise my point.
Auto subscription at sign up might be good, but it should let users unsubscribe after that
Show me 1 non-twat piefed poster and I’ll make an account
You are winning the race to be a lesser known reddit, congrats
