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.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

So it’s how the data is viewed but still same folks populating it?

yes

Voyager works on PieFed too actually

https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/

https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/wiki/piefed-app

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Okay so what’s the benefit of using both?

Is PieFed superior to Lemmy?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

there isn't really a benefit to using both, just pick whichever one you prefer and use that

https://join.piefed.social/features/