Brand new to Piefed here - i’m clueless about what you’re suggesting here. Why is there no piefed-app, and why do i need to use another service to make Piefed useful?
I feel like everytime there’s a european alternative to anything, it’s always unnecesarily complex and extremely unintuitive…
You don’t need the other service. I personally strongly oppose pitching stuff about federation and so on (this is something for a user to look into if they are interested).
If you are looking for communities, click the all Communities -> All Communities button:
Highly recommend lemmy. Yes, it doesn’t have all the communities that Reddit has and engagement isn’t as high, but its general content is overall good and it doesn’t feel littered with bots and spam like Reddit. It’s also much easier to access than it was when it first came out and the available clients are light years better than the garbage Reddit app.
Yeah, this is part of what had me a bit confused. I’m on lemmy, and in addition there’re different apps/readers for different instances? I just downloaded the top choice from the app store (Boost for lemmy). But they all talk to each other? And as far as I understood, you can also interact with for instance Mastodon which is an alternative to Twitter?
Most of the apps support both lemmy and piefed and you can browse all instances. You dont have to configure anything. I recommend Voyager for android/ios which currently im using rn. If you have iphone u can try mlem as well.
In short, every Lemmy instance holds a complete copy of the full post and comment history of every user of every other website on the lemmy/mastodon network. Every post and comment you make is first copied locally and then sent to the other sites for their own local copy.
It’s more resource intensive to have all of these separate sites, but it ensures that if one falls, another can take its place basically instantly. Redundancy means lemmy is incredibly sturdy with effectively 99.99% uptime. Your site might go down, but just change the url and you’re back. Albeit with a new account to make. Though I haven’t had to swap sites at this point, and it’s not a common occurrence
Lemmy and Piefed communicate with each other natively. You’ll find people talking about Lemmy here because they are on Lemmy, and most of them won’t even realize that you are not. It doesn’t matter that you are not, as we communicate across the platforms just fine.
One of our greatest challenges is that we don’t have a good umbrella term to refer to all of us. But I guess that’s not such a tragic problem.
In either case, no further action needed on your part.
My best newbie tip is to use https://lemmyverse.net/ to find new communities.
Just set your home instance (in your case lemmy.world) with the house icon and all links will refer you to the right place for you.
Discoverimg new stuff isn’t always straight forward, but lemmyverse.net makes it a little easier.
Then there are communities for promoting other new communities as well.
Have fun, amd welcome!
Brand new to Piefed here - i’m clueless about what you’re suggesting here. Why is there no piefed-app, and why do i need to use another service to make Piefed useful?
I feel like everytime there’s a european alternative to anything, it’s always unnecesarily complex and extremely unintuitive…
You don’t need the other service. I personally strongly oppose pitching stuff about federation and so on (this is something for a user to look into if they are interested).
If you are looking for communities, click the all Communities -> All Communities button:
https://piefed.social/communities
And then type a keyword to find a community.
Voyager works for mobile:
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/
You can also just use the mobile website (that’s what I prefer).
If you have any questions, just post them here:
https://piefed.social/c/piefed_help
PieFed also solves this natively better than Lemmy, so people coming in from Lemmy tends to give advice that is not all that useful for PieFed users.
Piefed is much newer so the clients don’t have the support they have with Lemmy.
Thank you for the suggestion, will definitely check that out!
Highly recommend lemmy. Yes, it doesn’t have all the communities that Reddit has and engagement isn’t as high, but its general content is overall good and it doesn’t feel littered with bots and spam like Reddit. It’s also much easier to access than it was when it first came out and the available clients are light years better than the garbage Reddit app.
So, I have Lemmy now and just made an account on PieFed. I don´t want to use multiple platforms. What would you suggest? Can I synch them?
You only need one platform, it’s like email, you use the provider you like the most.
Yeah, this is part of what had me a bit confused. I’m on lemmy, and in addition there’re different apps/readers for different instances? I just downloaded the top choice from the app store (Boost for lemmy). But they all talk to each other? And as far as I understood, you can also interact with for instance Mastodon which is an alternative to Twitter?
Welcome to Lemmy 🎉
Most of the apps support both lemmy and piefed and you can browse all instances. You dont have to configure anything. I recommend Voyager for android/ios which currently im using rn. If you have iphone u can try mlem as well.
In short, every Lemmy instance holds a complete copy of the full post and comment history of every user of every other website on the lemmy/mastodon network. Every post and comment you make is first copied locally and then sent to the other sites for their own local copy.
It’s more resource intensive to have all of these separate sites, but it ensures that if one falls, another can take its place basically instantly. Redundancy means lemmy is incredibly sturdy with effectively 99.99% uptime. Your site might go down, but just change the url and you’re back. Albeit with a new account to make. Though I haven’t had to swap sites at this point, and it’s not a common occurrence
Lemmy and Piefed communicate with each other natively. You’ll find people talking about Lemmy here because they are on Lemmy, and most of them won’t even realize that you are not. It doesn’t matter that you are not, as we communicate across the platforms just fine.
One of our greatest challenges is that we don’t have a good umbrella term to refer to all of us. But I guess that’s not such a tragic problem.
In either case, no further action needed on your part.
Welcome!