I’m not new to link aggregators/communities, but new to those outside of Reddit. About a month ago I joined Lemmy and today my curiosity led me to Piefed, although I’ve come across the name before.

My research told me Piefed is developing at a much faster pace than Lemmy, is that true? I like the onboarding of Piefed better, because it allows you to select things you might be interested in as part of the process, which is helpful. Overall, it’s a much more guided approach.

I’ve also gotten to know it doesn’t really matter for the average user which of the platforms one joins. So I’m specifically posting this question on a community on Lemmy through my Piefed account.

I’m based in Europe if that makes a difference, which I believe it doesn’t. Nonetheless I’m happy to read your thoughts. Thanks

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Being able to follow individual users, in addition to communities, is enough to tip the scales for me in favor of piefed. There’s a lot of content on the fediverse that is inaccessible from the threadiverse, and getting pixelfed photographers and mastodon meme accounts in my feed has been a huge improvement for me.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
      3·
      1 day ago

      That’s a recent feature though, isn’t it? If it’s so important to you, why didn’t you join Mbin instead which has had it for ages?

      • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I like @vicfroh@mastodon.social , @i0null@infosec.exchange , and @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (this is technically a bluesky account via a bridge to give credit where credit is due)

        I would also recommend @nonfedimemes@wetdry.world but I think they might have stopped posting? idk maybe follow anyway in case they come back

        (also hi y’all! sorry I’m a little late for follow friday)

    • stopforgettingit@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      what UI do you use as a that lets you add pixelfed and mastdon to your feed? I am on Voyager but it doesn’t fully support piefed and I don’t see anyway of adding non lemmy fediverse places to it.

      • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I use the pwa. The interface for following users is still pretty clunky — you have to browse the instance on the instances page, and you only see accounts who have interacted with your instance previously. I went to pixelfed.social and gram.social and followed just some random accounts and it has turned out way better than I expected. My favorite is an account that posts photos from a gameboy camera, @harryfk@pixelfed.social