So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.
What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?
Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.
On which one should we put our weight?
Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781
No, that’s not true. Piefed has no list of banned words. That specific function (which has been toned down) is purely for when a new instance wants to fetch new communities. It will ignore communities with specific keywords, most of them are just insults.
I suggest not purely relying on the word of Hexbear users who have never used Piefed and are trying to interpret the code.
I saw that in a very different thread, but search engines are useless nowadays.
The “most of them” part is (or was) a huge problem a bunch had been communities which the programmer had some weird personal agenda against.
Then why bring it up, if you aren’t certain? Let others who know do that? Anyway here are some details about the situation:
It was actually Lemmy that had a hard-coded list of banned words, and those word above are from Nutomic, except that after a huge outcry the Lemmy devs did relent.
As Skavau said there was a recent issue where new communities would not automatically be brought in, but that’s not a “block” since they can always be added manually at any time. Even so, it was hard-coded (generally never a good thing to do in code), and it wasn’t highlighted in the code to make it easier for new instance admins to see and change unless they were reading through all of the code (which I think most instance admins have been doing so far?).
So it’s not “great”, but it’s not horrendous either, unlike the true hard-coded word block done by Lemmy.
Also, PieFed recently enabled allowing the showing of deleted posts. I think it’s a bug that the OP image is still showing (when OP deletes something they should have the right to make it disappear, but conversely those conversations started by their OP yet continued by others are not their property to dispense so readily), but anyway you can read through it here: https://piefed.social/post/1623152. Note that many things have already changed since then, e.g. Lemmy has walked back its own hard-coding of another matter, the centralization of using Lemmy.ml as the sole authoritarian control source to define the list of popular communities sent out to new instances (it is still hard-coded, despite all the outcry about hard-coding when done by the PieFed devs, but at least now it provides for some alternatives), plus deleted posts are a thing now, they’ve also been changed to be allowed automatically without needing to be triggered.
The difference in handling these matters between the PieFed vs. Lemmy devs is very notable. I’m tired of how people speak as if the Lemmy devs have never done any wrong and PieFed should not exist so as to make room for Lemmy. If people want to use Lemmy, they will, but the same for Piefed? The full details are there if you want to peruse them, unlike on Lemmy where a deleted post returns an empty page that acts as if the OP never used to exist in the first place.
Rimu does not like meme communities and 4chan culture, and piefed.social specifically will automatically erase all post from meme communities (and drama communities) after 6 months to save space (or at least that’s a partial reason). Other instances like piefed.world have disabled this function. There were other terms in the original code that blocked other things too, like “196” and “piracy” so new communities with those in the title could not be auto-fetched (although could still be added manually), but they’ve now been removed.