Been using Piefed on the Interstellar app, its pretty nice. As other have said, the collecting of seemingly duplicate posts into one is great. Overall it doesn't feel much different on an average use case.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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But I also have a lemmy.today. Because I was on Lemm.ee, but that died, sadly.
And a Lemmy.zip, as I was on Kbin, back in the day, but that also went down. So I diversified my Fedifolio. I also use the Boost app, and Voyager, just in case any of those apps go down.
You'll get a negative social credit score if you join PieFed and ditch lemmy
https://join.piefed.social/features/
Differences between Lemmy and PieFed
- Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.
- Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.
- Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/pics@lemmy.world
- 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.
- Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
- Better UI design (somewhat subjective!)
- Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)
- Voting is private.
- See also features for healthy communities.
- Each community has it’s own wiki. Demo
I don't like the fact that users receive a banner next to their name if they get downvoted a lot. This makes other people judge negatively the comment even before reading it. I think it also encourages people to keep downvoting and discourages to upvote (as what happens with mass down votes of a comment on Reddit just for the sake of doing so).
Edit: sorry for my English, it's not my native language + I just woke up
This only effects about 3.5% of accounts.
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.
I think any kind of reputation score should be community specific. There are users whose commenting style fits one community but not another, and their overall reputation should be understood in the context of which communities actually like them rather than some kind of global average.
Time for another fork... sigh...
We now have thirteen competing standards!
Id say I say some controversial things yet I still somehow on average go positive karma wise, you have to be straight up hateful and ignorant on purpose to go negative imo
This might need updating, I think the private voting feature was removed?
Indeed, I raised to Rimu to review that page
How exactly does the private vote thing work? I thought votes being federated was inherent to the way the fediverse is designed.
Private votes are just normal votes except without the federation. So their effect is only felt on the local instance.
I believe piefed creates fake accounts to do the voting so it doesn't federate the actual account that cast the vote.
That's how it used to work but I got rid of it because there were too many unintended side-effects. Now a private vote is just one that is not federated.
What were the side-effects? I was thinking of implementing something that doesn't directly federate votes, so it would be good to know what problems I'd need to solve before that can be done.
Some admins really love watching who votes for what and banning people based on that.
You can disagree with that if you like but if it means they get pissed enough to defederate your whole instance, you lose.
If your instance is just you and a handful of others, no one will notice or care. But once you have 1000 users the amount of anonymous votes will be noticed and there will be consequences. Maybe not defederation but everyone banned for upvoting bigoted content or vote manipulation will migrate to your instance and you'll be hosting the biggest shitbirds around.
I don't see a solution to this. As long as admins snoop on people's votes that will be the dynamic and PieFed puts itself at a disadvantage by doing anything different.
Hide all posts based on keyword filters.
I'm very interested in this. I'm kinda stunned that lemmy doesn't do this natively.
The Voyager client can do that. I use it a lot!
I use connect which also does that. IMO, it should be native.
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Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.
I don't particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it's better for it, all things considered.
The -10 can be changed in your settings. Set it to -1000 to show everything :)
- Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.
Is this self-designated?
I have no idea! I'm already hosting Lemmy so I don't really see the point personally.
Just thought I'd look it up for OP.
No, admins designate it.
Most instances do not use this feature, afaik. piefed.social does but most of the others do not.
In the code there is a function that recognizes if the name of the community contains "meme" and if so does not add the upvote to the vote counter of the user
I wrote that code. It can be turned off or on by the instance admin. When an instance is created It's off by default.
Originally, when I wrote the feature comparison page, it could not be turned off.
Well since I have a chance to be seen from the developer of Piefed: thank you for your work. The more options we have, the better.
Cheers :)
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So I created an account over on piefed.social and was browsing by /all and saw some communities I have no interest in ever seeing. I navigate through to the community and there's no "block community" function? How am I to browse by /all as is my wont, without seeing furry porn? Nothing wrong with it but it's just not my jam.
Honestly /all is the best way to find new active communities to join and it's worked here at Lemmy just fine. Or maybe I missed the button on piefed, or devs are adding it as you read this.
You probably missed it. I remember having to look for a minute before I found the block community button when I tried it out.
I looked again, if it's on there it's very well hidden. I'm using the website btw, maybe the app has it more easy to access.
Edit: I looked in the settings menu and you can block communities through there but ideally for me there be a way to do it from the page of the community itself.
Jumped onto my desktop to check. You can do it from the comm page by clicking on the hamburger button (...) of any post, and there'll be an option there to block the comm. No, I have no idea why a comm-wide setting is only found under a post-specifi button.
It's on the 3 dot menu on every post.
Makes sense to have it on the community too, tho. I'll find a place for it.
@rimu@piefed.social FYI
Others have covered most.
For me the one killer feature is grouping of duplicate articles over multiple instances into one post, with comments from all instances listed therein.
This takes away the ghost town feeling of Lemmy, and the frustration of seeing the same post multiple times while scrolling.
The one bad thing is we can't upload images to posts or comments, so it's several steps forward, one step backwards.
Edit: you can post images if you're using Summit on Android, just can't seem to do it via the PWA / Web version.
I love this feature
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It is similar to Lemmy in that it's also a link aggregation platform. What makes it different is that it is created by different people using different code and has different priorities. But the same basic features are present.
I can't speak to why it might be better than Lemmy because I don't use it. Maybe some people think it's better because of the features it offers. Maybe others don't like the Lemmy devs and prefer supporting a different application. There are lots of possible reasons.
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