Second, why there are 3 different, basically inter-compatible projects out there, what are the benefits of each one over the others? and why does Lemmy prevail all of them.

*i will be using feddit as a umbrella term for all the reddit-like fediverse.

I don't have much of a technical Background to know how this things work under the hood, but I'm quite curious of where all of this is heading.

I see a lot of awesome features locked away in these other projects that would be just nice if it was standard to have them, like piefed's hashtag-like system that allows people to seek things by topic instead of going to a specific community hosted in a specific instance, it would instantly fix the fragmentation problem across feddit, lol.

How the future of feddit will be? will be all be using Lemmy or other specific project, or instances will use whatever project they like and they will be cross compatible enough that it won't be much of a deal what project is running underneath?

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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We call them threadiverse or forumverse.

They are very different.

Currently Lemmy lacks lot features compared to PieFed and Mbin.

Mbin support mastodon, tag, change link to link's title, customization...sorry i don't know well Mbin but it is a good software :)
Piefed support tag, flair, multicommunity, temporary filters, i read the article, block downvote from people who aren't subcribed to community...
Lemmy was there before PieFed. So it was my first software they have lot apps, lot UI.

Anyway, i recommend you testing them so you can get a better understanding on their pro and cons :)

[–] rglullis@communick.news 12 points 1 year ago

Piefed also has this Mastodon-esque tendency to implement features that only work on their system and are not interoperable with the rest of the ActivityPub software. Which is the kind of thing that is only "nice" until they are a minority player, but could make them one of the most hated systems if they start getting significant users.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for saying mbin is good software 👋😊

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 5 points 1 year ago

Development wise, how do you see piefed develop into the future?

any chances of it just dying?