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And piefed is fine?
If so that's really good news, a lot of people around here seem to interpret "Lemmy is too complicated" as meaning "anything decentralized and not big tech is just too difficult'. I suspect the reality of the matter is that Lemmy is just not extremely user friendly.
PieFed's sign-up wizard, and always-available features basically solves the issue if content discoverability for a new user account.
Want to block content? Keyword filters and other blocks that Lemmy lacks.
Interested in a subject? Bam, you are now subscribed to it, or if you ever want later, the Topic/Feeds are always there for you. In Lemmy people complain bitterly about having to wade daily through huge amounts of furry and anime communities constantly popping up, but on PieFed you never need to browse by All (you can if you want to though).
Hashtags, user and community flairs, polls, PieFed basically took a large laundry list of things that people wished were in Lemmy, and then made most of them in a year rather than decade.
Lemmy looks polished, but it's mainly marketed towards potential new admins to run their own servers, and even that requires large investments of network traffic and attention (especially technical know-how to avoid getting spammed with CSAM or bots slurping up data). PieFed makes most things significantly easier than Lemmy - especially for end-users but also when for admins. e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed and https://slrpnk.net/post/29381524.