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

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    10 days ago

    As soon as I can microblog straight to my own profile I’m sold. On mbin I had to make an admin only magazine for my microblogs to all be in one place.

    • blued_gear@fedia.io
      1·
      10 days ago

      Could you describe your problem in more detail?

      Microblogs are always associated to your profile. If you want to post something which is not meant for a specific magazine, the random magazine is what you need to use. It is a pseudo-magazine (and so not federated as a community) which aggregates all microblog posts which are not attached to a real magazine.

        • blued_gear@fedia.io
          1·
          10 days ago

          What exactly do you mean “to a profile”? Can you give an example of the difference (I never used Mastodon)?

          • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            5 days ago

            Well tumblr and Twitter are the same way. There are no magazines / subforums / subreddits / individual communities (or weren’t last I used them). Your profile has your posts and people follow other users individually. You can tag your posts but you can use just about as many tags as you want the post isn’t bound to any one tag. The only specific thing they’re bound to is literally just your personal profile (or that of anyone who reblogs / retweets / retoots / reposts it to their own profile). A microblog is literally a completely different format to a forum / message board style post while kbin treats it like a forum post lite. You don’t microblog to an individual community you microblog as yourself to your entire sever (and beyond, if properly federated).

            • blued_gear@fedia.io
              1·
              3 days ago

              That is not really correct, posts are represented differently from threads in Mbin (internally and in the UI). You don’t have to post to a specific magazine / community. If you want your post to just float around in the Fediverse (so have the post associated with just your account + hashtags) you choose the random magazine for the post.
              I admit that this is not really intuitive and the random magazine is a crutch for this platform to handle plain posts. To make it a bit easier to grasp I created a PR to select the random magazine if one is not on a magazine page.

              But all of what you described is possible with Mbin. As an example I created this post (using the form on the generic microblog page) which you can see under posts on my local account. I would like to add links to federated Mbin and Mastodon instances, but nobody follows me, so remote instances don’t pull posts.

              What is currently not possible is to follow hashtags (but you can list posts), but I am going to implement this soon.