cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884

There’s so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.

I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?

For me, it’s mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.

  • mesaEnglish
    4•17 days ago

    That’s a very good question. I don’t have a good answer ATM. I have both because I’m on the fence.

    Lemmy and piefed both scratch the topic discovery itch. Both are excellent software.

    Piefed pros:

    1. Topics (collection of communities) are awesome to subscribe to.
    2. One of the best fediverse integrations out there.
    3. The python is easy to read.
    4. Mod tools are great.
    5. The main dev is a treasure

    Lemmy pros:

    1. Very reddit like UI.
    2. Lots of apps phone or otherwise.
    3. Very well supported by admins of the bigger instances

    Lemmy has an easier way to post than piefed. The selection of communities is a bit better. Piefed is much easier to stand up on home servers (I did it once). It’s also seeing a large amount of dev work right now. And as I’ve said before it has much better fediverse integration than Lemmy. Lemmy has this issue where it’s hard to federate with other services, even when you search using the search tool.

    • gon [he]OPEnglish
      3•17 days ago

      You know, you make it sound like Piefed is pretty strictly better! If the pros for Lemmy boil down to a larger user-base…

      Well, I’ll definitely be checking it out! Thanks for the reply :D

      Edit: Hilarious first impression.

      First impression Piefed

      • mesaEnglish
        2•17 days ago

        Oh yeah filters! They are a thing. Works pretty well on piefed.

        • gon [he]OPEnglish
          2•17 days ago

          Do all filters have that 3 level system? Blocking all, most, or none of a certain topic? Because that is a Feature, capital F Feature.

          Also, do you know of an alternative front-end for Piefed? I use alexandrite.app for Lemmy, there’s also phtn.app. Does Piefed have something like that?

          • mesaEnglish
            2•17 days ago

            It has front ends but it’s inbuilt.

          • freamonEnglish
            2•17 days ago

            Do all filters have that 3 level system?

            Yes - that Trump/Musk form is just a shortcut to setting up your own filter - the options on that form equate to ‘hide completely’, ‘make semi-transparent’ (so you can see the post, but it’s faded out), or “don’t set up a filter”

            Also, do you know of an alternative front-end for Piefed?

            There’s the one I made (the one linked to by OpenStars), but I think the more promising development is that the Interstellar dev has made some progress supporting PieFed too (Interstellar is already the only app that supports both MBIN and Lemmy, and I like the idea of one app for 3 different platforms).

            • gon [he]OPEnglish
              2•16 days ago

              I love Thunder for Lemmy, so I’m definitely interested in what you’re doing.

              That being said, I think an app that could unite the threadiverse is really cool. Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, all in one. That’s nice… I do have Interstellar installed, but I don’t really like it as of now.