Some context for people reading this and out of the loop
Piefed has some filters that are disabled by default and configurable by admins: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1005977/piefed-admin-settings-that-allow-to-enable-or-disable-content-filters-they-are-disabled-by
Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.
A regular issue from newcomers is that all there is on the Threadiverse is US news: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comments/1qr4tji/a_canadianrun_reddit_alternative/o2lrxli/
The onboarding process helps with that.
Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have
- cross-posts comments consolidation: example: https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1011777/say-no-to-palantir-in-the-nhs#post_replies . Community fragmentation is a regular criticism of the Threadiverse, and this solves it.
- multi-communities, so that smaller communities are not drown in the most active ones in the Subscribed feed, allowing once again to avoid the "all there is is US news"
- built-in keyword filters
For a detailed list: https://join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy 1.0 is planned to add some of those features, but still doesn't have a defined release date yet: https://lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
Due to all of this, Piefed is currently considered a better platform for new joiners than Lemmy. This can change once Lemmy 1.0 is released, but that's how it is right now.
Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn't ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
A recent comment showed the disconnection between a Threadiverse enthusiast and a potential new joiner: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comments/1qr4tji/a_canadianrun_reddit_alternative/o2m2h2o/
On the other hand, the Fedecan guides are quite helpful: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
But even beyond that, as we all know, people don't have to understand federation to use the platform: https://lemmy.world/post/35166124
That's why a few people have been pointing only to Piefed recently.
(Why should we even try to get people from Reddit to here? More people allows niche communities to become active rather than relying on one single poster, if any. That's an issue we usually see on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip )
There have been a few posts recently on Reddit promoting Piefed:
- https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1004482/post-mentioning-piefed-ca-in-r-buycanadian
- https://piefed.zip/c/buyeuropean/p/999260/post-on-r-buyfromeu-promoting-the-fediverse-stop-relying-on-us-big-tech-decentralized-open
- https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/995146/something-to-help-people-lead-to-the-fediverse
There has also been a post about the Piefed filters I mentioned above: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62580326
It seems like since then a few Lemmy users have been on a campaign against Piefed:
This position is a bit surprising, as quite a few Lemmy instances have a Piefed instance as well
- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ and https://anarchist.nexus/
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ and https://piefed.blahaj.zone/
- https://lemmy.ca/ and https://piefed.ca/
- https://lemmy.world/ and https://piefed.world/
- https://lemmy.zip/ and https://piefed.zip/
If Piefed was as bad as the posts against it say, then probably most of the instances would have shut those instances down already.
Both software coexist and are federated, so this kind of targeted posts against one of them seems counterproductive.
That's it for me, good Sunday everyone.
Lemmy.ml isn't blocked at all.
I meant hexbear and lemmygrad.