What’s the advantage over Lemmy?
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Differences between Lemmy and PieFed
Community Organization & Discovery
Categories & Topics – Communities can be grouped into customizable, shareable categories and broader topics.
Feeds – Similar to multireddits, allowing users to bundle multiple communities into one view (example).
Local-only Communities – Some communities can be set to not federate.
Tiled/Masonry View – For image-heavy communities (example).
Community Wikis – Each community has its own wiki page.
Posting & Content
Consolidated Comments – View all comments from multiple related posts on one page (example).
Post & User Flairs – Both posts and users can have flairs.
Spoiler Tags – Built-in spoiler support for posts.
Polls – Native polling system.
Events – Posts with a location and time.
Hashtags – Fully supported.
Keyword Filter – Hide all posts containing specified words.
NSFL Filter & Icon – Separate from NSFW.
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
Domain Blocking – Block specific domains (separate from instance blocking).
Bot Filter – Hide posts from all bots with a single checkbox.
More Efficient Federation – votes are sent in batches.
Move Communities To Another Instance
Translate Posts – LibreTranslate integration
Moderation & Safety
Better Moderation & Reporting Tools – More robust admin/mod utilities. Video tour
Proper Instance Blocking – Actually hides all content from blocked instances.
User IP Bans – Prevents repeat offenders.
Image hash-based blocking – video demo
Authoritarian Inoculation – Feature to reduce the impact of authoritarian propaganda.
Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.
Staff and Admin Users – Clear admin role separation.
Cannot Use “password” as a Password – Basic account security enforcement.
Video tour of admin area
User Experience
Keyboard Shortcuts – For faster navigation.
Low Bandwidth Mode – For slow connections.
Voting Privacy – Votes can be private (not federated); in meme communities, upvotes don’t affect reputation (optional).
Improved Ranking Algorithm – Hotness ranking tuned for better content surfacing (subjective).
Better UI Design – Cleaner interface (subjective).
Default Comment Collapsing – Comments at -10 score or below are collapsed automatically.
Low Reputation Indicator – Identifies consistently downvoted users.
New Account Icon – Marks accounts that are new.
Privacy Policy – Clearly available.
Proper Chat – Built-in real-time chat.
travle.earth
I’m sure I’m late to the game on that one. Found it on Lemmy. Super fun geography puzzle/trivia game.
I suck at geography lol
It said find a route from Kazakstan to Malaysia, my mind immediately went to Russia, then China, then Vietnam, then I got stuck, so I guessed Singapore (lmao what, I’m so dumb), then Laos, then Myanmar, then Bangladesh, then Cambodia… I think I exceeded 7 guess or something…
I forgot Thailand existed… 💀
Yeah I love the daily games community, but I certainly suck at this one. I never post my results.
Link for anyone interested !dailygames@lemmy.zip :)
Cool, thank you!
Personally I hate the snow/winter, but this site makes it look pretty at least.
Is a list/map of open data portals around the world(and the associated papers that reference that data).
Alongside of bandle.app. Do dailies every day.
I’m just starting my linux journey and this lil interactive tutorial helped make sense of Vim in a simple, easy way. Just a nice thing I’m happy exists.
The virtual lava tube. It’s actually just a part of a larger website about caves, but I haven’t browsed the rest yet.
