in different social networks I often see a table of fediverse alternatives to centralized social networks like twitter = mastodon and so on, but I noticed that the alternative to reddit is piefed and not lemmy, can someone explain what kind of fediverse project this is, and is it different from lemmy?🤔

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I can’t give you any deep comparisons, but I’ll say that PieFed has more features but feels a bit less responsive. PieFed also has a user reputation system which many, including myself, see as problematic. There are claims, including in this thread, that the PieFed Devs have incorporated censorship of views that they don’t like on a software level, but I don’t see how they could manage that.

    The Lemmy devs hold very controversial opinions in support of China and Russia, and the instance run by the devs, lemmy.ml, strongly reflects those views, but as far as I can tell they haven’t baked them into the code. Where it gets sticky is that donations to support Lemmy development also fund .ml.