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What’s the difference between PieFed and Lemmy?
I’ve been tryna understand this for months
Piefed limits how many things you can upvote :/
Not a whole lot. Piefed has better cross post support which is nice. But it also has voting limits which is not.
So it’s how the data is viewed but still same folks populating it?
Is it an alternative to Voyager (which how I’ve been interfacing Lemmy)?
Voyager is a Lemmy/PieFed frontend. Kind of like how if you have a Gmail account, you can check your email using the official Gmail app or with any alternative email app like Thunderbird, K-Mail, Fairmail, the iOS Mail app, etc. if you want. Those apps are all just front ends for accessing your email account. Similarly, you can access Lemmy/PieFed via frontend apps like Voyager, Thunder, Blorp, etc.
Note that while many apps support both Lemmy/PieFed, some apps only support one or the other. For example, Jerboa is just a Lemmy app and does not support PieFed in any way.
Piefed and Lemmy both intermix and talk to each other. What matters more is on the backend for mods and hosting communities. The big draw is Piefed has more features that help make moderation easier.
One thing on the user side that I like is how comments are handled. Since crossposting is common, Piefed allows you to see all comments from all crossposts as one thread so you don’t have to hop to the other post to see what’s being said. This is helpful if an article for example is posted to news communities on different instances.
The interaction limitation tho, I think that’s a bad call, even if it’s got an option to disable.
Eh, I think it's fine, even a good idea in theory, as long as the limits are generous. It can slow down and limit certain forms of malicious behavior like spamming and bot-based vote manipulation. But the limits need to be set high enough that real, good-faith users basically never run into them.
I will say that’s one thing PieFed does really well, cutting down on bots and spam. I considered switching to it for a minute, but didn’t.
yes
Voyager works on PieFed too actually
https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/
https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app
Okay so what’s the benefit of using both?
Is PieFed superior to Lemmy?
there isn't really a benefit to using both, just pick whichever one you prefer and use that
https://join.piefed.social/features/
it's configurable by the admins, here on retrofed we have that disabled
Ah, ok. I've been getting a mysterious "limit reached" error message when using my piefed account with Thunder. I wasn't sure if that voting limit is the reason. I've had to switch to my lemmy account for a while.
it's kinda like the difference between Gmail and Yahoo Mail, or the difference between Chrome and Firefox
they both communicate with each other but they're different pieces of software made by different people
https://join.piefed.social/features/