I've been on Lemmy for ~3 Months and it's nice but picking a instance, figuring out which web UI works for me, figuring out which Mobile App works for met etc. was a lot, and most people would have given up.
I've been using PieFed for the last few days, and wow I like it so much more, it solved so many of the UX issues that Lemmy has.
These features make a BIG impact, most of the common things people on Reddit complain about when you promote Lemmy isn't a issue on PieFed.
My favourite feature is de-duplication, on PieFed if I view eg. this post https://piefed.social/post/749818#comment_6102866
It combines/aggregates it with cross-posts/reposts
So I can see it in one place, and see all the comments in one place.
Have you tried out PieFed? What are your thoughts?
I love the deduplication feature on piefed. It's great
I also love that it has custom multi-comm feeds like subreddits. I still haven't made one for myself though, since the default topics — multi-comm feeds as well — already works quite well.
Those two, combined with their onboarding process, I think makes it the better "platform" to get new users IMO
It helps with having a handholding experience to jumpstart a new user, and not make it as "dead" looking or having to suffer All with American politics posts
I tried Lemmy way back when the APIcalypse happened but it never stuck.
I tried again earlier this year because of something happening again at reddit and decide to also try mbin because of built in support for microblogs. Turns out I still don't care about microblogs if everyone that I follow on X isn't here. It's also "just another Lemmy" but with microblog support in my short term using it
Them I decided to finally try piefed. Ever since I created this account it's been my main and never accessed my LW, lemmyzip, fedia and kbinearth accounts again lol