Asklemmy

A comment I came across like two weeks ago puts it quite well:

I haven't used piefed myself but I wouldn't want to switch to it because I feel like it gives more power to downvotes and karma (or "reputation" as they call it):

• Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
• People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.
• Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

Those are three of the twelve points listed as differences to lemmy on their features page.

I also don't agree with some of the points in their article on "PieFed features for growing healthy communities".

from: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17119490
the comments' thread is also quite interesting

Plus it's written in Python and has only a few hundred MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales

EDIT: Regarding Lemmy frontends, I suggest you take a look at how the instance I'm on handles it. They append a single char in front of the url to signify the various frontends

I would also recommend lemmy. It's more established, has a strong community footing. And above all, it seems to be well written (in terms of code) and has tons of clients (UIs/apps). And like the other comment says, I'm not convinced about the performance of piefed

Running both rn with the same magnitude of mau and piefed is using significantly fewer resources. Unless you expect 100s of mau's I say ignore the concerns about piefed's scalability.

As for apps, those are more or less in the pipeline, piefed didn't have an API at all until a while ago and it's just now getting to a point where it's reasonable for developers to implement it. Voyager recently added Piefed support and iirc Photon also works with Piefed.