So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.

What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?

Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.

On which one should we put our weight?

Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: https://lemmy.ml/post/40744781

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Piefed has a list of words that are banned and no instance can federate with others that use words like porn

    No, that’s not true. Piefed has no list of banned words. That specific function (which has been toned down) is purely for when a new instance wants to fetch new communities. It will ignore communities with specific keywords, most of them are just insults.

    I suggest not purely relying on the word of Hexbear users who have never used Piefed and are trying to interpret the code.

    • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      2 days ago

      I saw that in a very different thread, but search engines are useless nowadays.

      The “most of them” part is (or was) a huge problem a bunch had been communities which the programmer had some weird personal agenda against.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        The “most of them” part is (or was) a huge problem a bunch had been communities which the programmer had some weird personal agenda against.

        Rimu does not like meme communities and 4chan culture, and piefed.social specifically will automatically erase all post from meme communities (and drama communities) after 6 months to save space (or at least that’s a partial reason). Other instances like piefed.world have disabled this function. There were other terms in the original code that blocked other things too, like “196” and “piracy” so new communities with those in the title could not be auto-fetched (although could still be added manually), but they’ve now been removed.